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Process UN World Prospects Data for African Countries

Source: R/process_UN_demographics_data.R
process_UN_demographics_data.Rd

This function processes demographic data from the UN World Population Prospects for African countries. It loads available data, gets total population, birth rates, and death rates, and saves the processed data as both annual and daily CSV files. The daily data is created through linear interpolation.

Usage

process_UN_demographics_data(PATHS)

Arguments

PATHS

A list containing paths where raw and processed data are stored. PATHS is typically the output of the get_paths() function and should include the following components:

  • DATA_RAW: Path to the directory containing the raw UN World Population Prospects data.

  • DATA_PROCESSED: Path to the directory where processed demographic data should be saved.

Value

The function does not return a value. It processes the UN demographic data and saves both annual and daily interpolated results as CSV files in the specified directory.

Details

The function performs the following steps:

  1. Loads raw demographic data from CSV files.

  2. Merges population, birth rate, and death rate data.

  3. Saves the annual data as UN_world_population_prospects_annual.csv.

  4. Creates daily interpolated data using linear interpolation between annual values.

  5. Saves the daily data as UN_world_population_prospects_daily.csv.

The processed data files will be saved in the PATHS$DATA_PROCESSED/demographics/ directory.

Data Source: United Nations World Population Prospects

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Define paths for raw and processed data using get_paths()
PATHS <- get_paths()

# Process the UN World Prospects data for all available years and save the results
process_UN_demographics_data(PATHS)
} # }