Create vignettes for CMHC data
dshkol opened this issue · comments
There's currently very little documentation on how to use the additional data open-sourced by CMHC used here:
- https://doodles.mountainmath.ca/blog/2020/04/23/census-tract-level-t1ff-tax-data/
- https://doodles.mountainmath.ca/blog/2020/01/26/unoccupied-dwellings-data/
Can these articles be adapted into a vignette or two to include on the site and bundled with the package?
Good call, I will do that. Slightly related, there is another xtab, "Family Characteristics of Adults (11), Age (16) and Sex (3) for the Population 15 Years and Over in Private Households" that I imported at some point, goes down to CT level. But it's kind of niche, it's from when I was interested in young adults living with parents.
Not sure if it's worth exposing it through cancensus, nowadays I would provably recommend people just getting the xtab straight from StatCan using the statcanxtabs package. Although that package would need some documentation and cleanup work. And somehow deal with the unzip issue on windows machines, and it also at this point requires python to parse large (e.g. 20GB) xml.
Thanks, we can add that once ready.
WRT the other dataset you mentioned - I think sometimes it's alright to let things be as they are. The complexity vs potential applications of an additional package or extending core functionality to fit that use case is probably not worth it. I think having a process document like you do somewhere for how to work with that particular xtab is sufficient.
Added a vignette for the structural type by document type to the dplyr-deprecated branch. Will add a vignette for the tax data in the coming days.
Added in #142