The new function get_pop_est() works like the others in that you can do:
get_pop_est(level = "hb")
It will return the Health Board level populations (other levels can be got similarly), possibly it would be worth splitting this into get_hb_pop_est(), get_hscp_pop_est() etc?
There is other optional functionality:
Group the data by age group: it uses phsmethods::create_age_groups() to create age groups so they can be customised using that function's parameters. The data will be returned aggregated to the age groups.
The data can also be pivoted to return the various population breakdowns (age/age group and sex) as columns instead of rows. There are a number of options for this to chose different breakdowns.
The new function
get_pop_est()works like the others in that you can do:It will return the Health Board level populations (other levels can be got similarly), possibly it would be worth splitting this into
get_hb_pop_est(),get_hscp_pop_est()etc?There is other optional functionality:
phsmethods::create_age_groups()to create age groups so they can be customised using that function's parameters. The data will be returned aggregated to the age groups.