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Trends in B.C.'s Population Size & Distribution

A set of R scripts to populate an indicator on trends in B.C.'s population size and distribution. These scripts reproduce the analysis and plots published on Environmental Reporting BC.

Usage

Data

The source data for the indicator is publically available from BC Stats, the central statistical agency of the Province of British Columbia.

(1) The 'Annual population, July 1, 1867-2017 (CSV)' data file is downloaded directly from the BC Stats web page, distributed under the Access Only - B.C. Crown Copyright licence.

(2) The 'Sub-provincial Population Estimates 1986-2017 (CSV)' data file (Access Only - B.C. Crown Copyright licence) can be manually downloaded from the BC Stats Sub-provincial Population Estimates search tool following this manual query:

   + Select region type: Regional District
   + Select regions: select all
   + Select sex(es): Totals
   + Select age group: Totals
   + Generate output
   + Export to CSV

Code

There are two core scripts that are required for the analysis, they need to be run in order:

01_clean.R - cleans and prepares data for analysis
02_output.R - creates maps and graphs and saves outputs

The run_all.R script can be sourceed to run it all at once.

Most packages used in the analysis can be installed from CRAN using install.packages(), but you will need to install envreportutils and patchwork using devtools:

install.packages("devtools") # if you don't already have it installed

library(devtools)
install_github("bcgov/envreportutils")
install_github("thomasp85/patchwork")

Getting Help or Reporting an Issue

To report bugs/issues/feature requests, please file an issue.

How to Contribute

If you would like to contribute, please see our CONTRIBUTING guidelines.

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.

License

Copyright 2016 Province of British Columbia

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at 

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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