Education services in Europe

This dataset integrates Member States' official data on the location of education services. Additional information on these services is included when available. See Details.

Usage

gisco_get_education(
  year = c(2023, 2020),
  cache = TRUE,
  update_cache = FALSE,
  cache_dir = NULL,
  verbose = FALSE,
  country = NULL
)

Source

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata/basic-services.

Arguments

year: A character string or numeric value with the release year of the file. One of 2023, 2020.
cache: A logical value indicating whether to cache results. Defaults to TRUE. See Caching strategies section in gisco_set_cache_dir().
update_cache: A logical value indicating whether to refresh the cached file. Defaults to FALSE. When set to TRUE, it forces a new download.
cache_dir: A character string with a path to a cache directory. See Caching strategies section in gisco_set_cache_dir().
verbose: A logical value indicating whether to display informational messages.
country: A character vector of country codes. It can be either a vector of country names, a vector of ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country codes or a vector of Eurostat country codes. See also countrycode::countrycode().

Value

A sf object.

Details

Files are distributed in EPSG:4326.

The following table describes the education service attributes:

Attribute	Description
`id`	The education service identifier, based on national identification codes when available.
`name`	The name of the education institution.
`site_name`	The name of a specific site or branch of the education institution.
`lat`	Latitude (WGS 84).
`lon`	Longitude (WGS 84).
`street`	Street name.
`house_number`	House number.
`postcode`	Postcode.
`address`	Address information when the different components of the address are not separated in the source.
`city`	City name. In some sources, this refers to a region or municipality.
`cntr_id`	Country code (2 letters, ISO 3166-1 alpha-2).
`levels`	Education levels represented by a single integer or range, using ISCED 2011.
`max_students`	Measure of capacity by maximum number of students.
`enrollment`	Measure of capacity by number of enrolled students.
`fields`	Academic disciplines in which the institution specializes, using ISCED-F 2013.
`facility_type`	Type of institution by ownership and operation, such as Catholic or international.
`public_private`	Public or private status of the education service.
`tel`	Telephone number.
`email`	Email address.
`url`	URL for the institution's website.
`ref_date`	The reference date (`DD/MM/YYYY`) for the data. The dataset represents the state on this date.
`pub_date`	The publication date of the dataset by Eurostat (`DD/MM/YYYY`).
`geo_qual`	Geolocation quality indicator: 1 = Good, 2 = Medium, 3 = Low, 4 = From source, -1 = Unknown, -2 = Not geocoded.
`comments`	Additional information on the education service.

Copyright

The general Eurostat copyright and licence provisions apply. Detailed metadata also list source-specific licensing conditions by country and data provider. Review the conditions for the selected data before use.

Data quality

The data are extracted from official national registers. They may contain inconsistencies, inaccuracies and gaps due to the heterogeneity of the national input data.

Examples

# \donttest{
edu_austria <- gisco_get_education(country = "Austria", year = 2023)

# Plot if downloaded.
if (!is.null(edu_austria)) {
  austria_nuts3 <- gisco_get_nuts(country = "Austria", nuts_level = 3)

  library(ggplot2)
  ggplot(austria_nuts3) +
    geom_sf(fill = "grey10", color = "grey60") +
    geom_sf(
      data = edu_austria, aes(color = rev(public_private)),
      alpha = 0.25
    ) +
    theme_void() +
    theme(
      plot.background = element_rect(fill = "black"),
      text = element_text(color = "white"),
      panel.grid = element_blank(),
      plot.title = element_text(face = "bold", hjust = 0.5),
      plot.subtitle = element_text(face = "italic", hjust = 0.5)
    ) +
    labs(
      title = "Education", subtitle = "Austria (2023)",
      caption = "Source: Eurostat, Education 2023 dataset.",
      color = "Type"
    ) +
    coord_sf(crs = 3035)
}

# }