PDHSData: Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey Data

Version : 0.1.0; Copyright (C) 2019-2020: UAF; License: GPL-2|GPL-3

Muhammad Yaseen

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan.

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Description

Provides data set for exploration of Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey (PDHS) data (http://nips.org.pk/Home.htm). The 2017-18 Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey (PDHS) is designed to provide data for monitoring the health situation in Pakistan. The 2017-18 PDHS is the 4th DHS survey conducted in Pakistan since 1990-91. It provides reliable estimates at the national level, for urban and rural areas, and for 4 regions and 4 provinces. The national total for indicators excludes Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan.

Installation

The development version can be installed from github as follows:

if (!require("remotes")) install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("myaseen208/PDHSData")

What’s new

To know whats new in this version type:

news(package = "PDHSData")

Links

Github page

Documentation website

Citing PDHSData

To cite the methods in the package use:

citation("PDHSData")

To cite the R package 'PDHSData' in publications use:

  Muhammad Yaseen (2020).  PDHSData: Pakistan Demographic and Health
  Survey Data.R package version 0.1.0 ,
  https://myaseen208.github.io/PDHSData/.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Manual{,
    title = {PDHSData: Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey Data},
    author = {{Muhammad Yaseen}},
    year = {2020},
    note = {R package version 0.1.0},
    note = {https://myaseen208.github.io/PDHSData/},
  }

This free and open-source software implements academic research by the
authors and co-workers. If you use it, please support the project by
citing the package.