The BC community socio-economic status (SES) index evaluates individuals or groups' relative social and economic standing within BC.
The SES index is often used in research, public policy, and social programs to understand disparities in outcomes such as health, education, and employment, and to develop interventions aimed at reducing inequality and promoting social mobility.
This repo is utilized to clean externally available sources of data such that it can be ingested for further use within a secure research environment.
Data used in this project is stored on the LAN. See src/README.md for detail.
A data documentation is created and saved in the project folder on the LAN.
The code for cleaning external data to be used in the development of a SES index are including in the src folder. More details for running this code can be found in /src/README.md.
An R env environment is created for this project using renv package. You can download and install all the packages this project needs by running renv::restore().
This project is in very early stages and will be subject to a large amount of change. The existing code has been added as a starting place.
To report bugs/issues/feature requests, please file an issue.
If you would like to contribute, please see our CONTRIBUTING guidelines.
Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.
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This project was created using the bcgovr package.