Trying to gather population data by age and year historical and projections to use in regression models for driving test demand forecasts.
to install from GitHub
devtools::install_github("https://github.com/MarkNichollsDVSA/UKpopData")
This is a basic example which shows you how to solve a common problem:
library(UKpopData)
get_pop_data()
#> # A tibble: 27 x 319
#> Year Total_Age_0 Total_Age_1 Total_Age_2 Total_Age_3 Total_Age_4 Total_Age_5
#> <chr> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
#> 1 2001 662662 679455 698903 710986 730156 724436
#> 2 2002 661786 664800 682505 702372 714737 734046
#> 3 2003 679910 662639 667850 685822 706437 718816
#> 4 2004 704450 679406 663651 670805 689289 710619
#> 5 2005 716331 704755 680794 665589 674460 691326
#> 6 2006 734035 716092 704383 681323 666792 676448
#> 7 2007 757429 737641 717749 705686 683009 668737
#> 8 2008 788225 758643 740782 718402 705931 683652
#> 9 2009 782726 787962 759942 743661 718630 706675
#> 10 2010 791801 781631 788659 761633 746833 719662
#> # ... with 17 more rows, and 312 more variables: Total_Age_6 <dbl>,
#> # Total_Age_7 <dbl>, Total_Age_8 <dbl>, Total_Age_9 <dbl>,
#> # Total_Age_10 <dbl>, Total_Age_11 <dbl>, Total_Age_12 <dbl>,
#> # Total_Age_13 <dbl>, Total_Age_14 <dbl>, Total_Age_15 <dbl>,
#> # Total_Age_16 <dbl>, Total_Age_17 <dbl>, Total_Age_18 <dbl>,
#> # Total_Age_19 <dbl>, Total_Age_20 <dbl>, Total_Age_21 <dbl>,
#> # Total_Age_22 <dbl>, Total_Age_23 <dbl>, Total_Age_24 <dbl>, ...Download the files as listed below and copy them into the
/inst/extdata/ folder
It appears to be a static spreadsheet which changes name every time is it updated
Current release date: 25 June 2021
Next Release due: September 2022
- Start website: www.ons.gov.uk
- Main menu: People, population and community Dropdown option: Population and migration
- In this section option: Population estimates Scroll down to: Datasets related to population estimates
- Select: Estimates of the population for the UK, England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
- Expand section: Mid-2001 to mid-2020 detailed time series edition of this dataset
- Supporting files you may find useful: UK population estimates, 1838 to 2020 (XLSX, 2.0 MB)
Direct link to current file: UK population estimates, 1838 to 2020 (XLSX, 2.0 MB)
From a tool from the ONS to download customised data
- Start website: www.nomisweb.co.uk
- Data Downloads section: Query Data
- Select Datasets by source: Population Estimates/Projections
- Opened folder: National Population projections by single age of year
Make the following selections:
- Geography: Great Britain
- Ages: un-check all “Labour Market categories” and check only 3rd box in quick select section for Individual ages and 5 year age bands section, thereby selecting only ages
- Select Years: Future years on from Historic data (2021 upwards to 2027, in this case )
- Select gender: Total, Males and Females
- Format selection: Microsoft Excel (.xlsx)
- Layout: projected year
- Other options: One table per worksheet checked
Wait, then download data
Due to the nature of the web-application there is no static link to the current file
The downloaded file has many tabs
The required table is called “Population estimates for UK, by sex and single year of age, mid-1971 to mid-2020” and is currently Table 3 (also tab “Table 3”)
There are 3 tables, arranged vertically in this order: All Persons, Male then Female. All 3 tables have column per year, starting with the most recent, and one row per age, starting with 0 years, ages 90+ are aggregated into one row.
The downloaded file will have 3 tabs, each tab has one table.
The tabs are named appropriately: Total, Male and Female
All 3 tables have one column per year, starting with the oldest, and one row per age, starting with 0 up to the maximum age, without any aggregation for 90+