Reads and does basic cleaning on the Scottish Health Survey 2014.

read_SHeS_2014(
  root = "X:/ScHARR/PR_Consumption_TA/HSE/Scottish Health Survey (SHeS)/",
  file = "SHeS 2014/UKDA-7851-tab/tab/shes14i_archive.tab"
)

Arguments

root

Character - the root directory.

file

Character - the file path and name.

Value

Returns a data table. Note that:

  • Missing data ("NA", "", "-1", "-2", "-6", "-7", "-9", "-90", "-90.0", "N/A") is replace with NA, -8 ("don't know") is also removed.

  • All variable names are converted to lower case.

  • Each data point is assigned a weight of 1 as there is no weight variable supplied.

  • A single sampling cluster is assigned.

  • The probabilistic sampling unit have the year appended to them.

Details

The Scottish Health Survey is designed to yield a representative sample of the general population living in private households in Scotland every year.

MISSING VALUES

  • -1 Not applicable: Used to signify that a particular variable did not apply to a given respondent usually because of internal routing. For example, men in women only questions.

  • -2 Schedule not applicable: Used mainly for variables on the self-completions when the respondent was not of the given age range, also used for children without legal guardians in the home who could not participate in the nurse schedule.

  • -6 Schedule not obtained: Used to signify that a particular variable was not answered because the respondent did not complete or agree to a particular schedule (i.e. nurse schedule or selfcompletions).

  • -8 Don't know, Can't say.

  • -9 No answer/ Refused

Examples


if (FALSE) {

data_2014 <- read_SHeS_2014("X:/",
"ScHARR/PR_Tobacco_mup/Data/Scottish Health Survey/SHeS 2014/UKDA-7851-tab/tab/shes14i_archive.tab")

}