Tidy World Marriage Data

Tidy data downloaded from the UN Population Division's World Marriage Data, database.

Usage

tidy_wmd(file, status = c("current", "ever"))

Arguments

file

Path to excel spreadsheet holding World Marriage Data

status

"current" (the default) or "ever". Whether to report results for the marriage staus "currently married" or "ever-married". Note that both statuses include consensual and de facto unions, in addition to legal marriages.

Value

A tibble

See also

• coef_wmd() Obtain time series of SVD coefficients from World Marriage Data

• data_ssvd_wmd() Put World Marriage Data into the format required by the ssvd() function in bage

Examples

file <- system.file(
  "extdata",
  "undesa_pd_2019_wmd_marital_status_subset.xlsx",
  package = "bssvd"
)
tidy_wmd(file)
#> # A tibble: 250 × 5
#>    country      time sex    age    value
#>    <chr>       <dbl> <chr>  <chr>  <dbl>
#>  1 Afghanistan 1973  Female 15-19 0.497 
#>  2 Afghanistan 1979  Female 15-19 0.534 
#>  3 Albania     1989  Female 15-19 0.082 
#>  4 Albania     2000  Female 15-19 0.0752
#>  5 Albania     2001  Female 15-19 0.0947
#>  6 Albania     2002  Female 15-19 0.095 
#>  7 Albania     2005  Female 15-19 0.0495
#>  8 Albania     2008. Female 15-19 0.07  
#>  9 Afghanistan 2010  Female 15-19 0.173 
#> 10 Afghanistan 2010. Female 15-19 0.198 
#> # ℹ 240 more rows