tncensus

Harmonized delegation-level data from Tunisia's 2014 and 2024 General Population and Housing Censuses (RGPH).

Installation

# From CRAN (when available):
install.packages("tncensus")

# Development version from GitHub:
# install.packages("pak")
pak::pak("MedDhia/tncensus")

Quick start

library(tncensus)
data("census_panel")
data("codebook")

head(census_panel[, 1:12])
codebook[codebook$domain == "Employment", ]

# Largest unemployment increases
census_panel[order(-census_panel$unemployment_rate_change),
  c("governorate", "delegation_fr_2014",
    "unemployment_rate_2014", "unemployment_rate_2024",
    "unemployment_rate_change")][1:10, ]

Datasets

Dataset	Rows	Cols	Description
census_panel	281	144	_2014, _2024, _change for 45 indicators
delegation_crosswalk	263	5	Name mapping between census waves
codebook	45	5	Variable metadata

Before CRAN submission

Generate .rda files for lazy loading (requires R):

Rscript data-raw/build_rda.R
R CMD build .
R CMD check tncensus_0.1.0.tar.gz --as-cran

Data source

Institut National de la Statistique (INS), Republic of Tunisia. RGPH 2014 and RGPH 2024.

License

CC BY 4.0. Attribution to INS Tunisia required.

Related packages

Part of a suite of R packages for Tunisian census data:

• rgph2014tn — raw 2014 RGPH data
• rgph2024tn — raw 2024 RGPH data
• tncensus (this package) — harmonized 2014-2024 panel

More at https://mohameddhiahammami.com/data