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

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

Usage

get_municipality_pop(year = 2022, codes_as_character = FALSE)

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.

Value

sf object

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).

Author

Markus Kainu markus.kainu@kela.fi, Joona Lehtomäki joona.lehtomaki@iki.fi

Examples

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