geofi (version 1.1.0)

get_municipality_pop: Get Number of population by Finnish municipality (multi)polygons for different years.

Description

Thin wrapper around Finnish zip code areas provided by Statistics Finland.

Usage

get_municipality_pop(year = 2022, codes_as_character = FALSE)

Value

sf object

Arguments

year

A numeric for year of the administrative borders. Available are 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022.

codes_as_character

A logical determining if the region codes should be returned as strings of equal width as originally provided by Statistics Finland instead of integers.

Author

Markus Kainu , Joona Lehtomäki

Details

The number of population on the last day of the reference year combined with municipality borders from year after. Calling the function with year = 2019 returns population data from 2019-12-31 with spatial data from 2020.

The statistical variables in the data are: total population (vaesto), share of the total population (vaesto_p), number of men (miehet), men's share of the population in an area (miehet_p) and women (naiset), women's share (naiset_p), those aged under 15: number (ika_0_14), share (ika_0_14p), those aged 15 to 64: number (ika_15_64), share (ika_15_64p), and aged 65 or over: number (ika_65_), share (ika_65_p).

Examples

 if (FALSE) {
 f <- get_municipality_pop(year=2020)
 plot(f)
 }