getUNstocks.Rd
Retrieve and create a data.table, data.frame
of United Nations
International Migrant Stocks Time Series (1990-2019) data from the official
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Population Division.
getUNstocks(version = "2019", wide = FALSE, range = c(1990, 2019))
version | A character string indicating desired version for acquisition.
Defaults to |
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wide | A logical switch indicating whether the return object is in wide or long (default) format. |
range | A numeric vector of length 2 representing start year and end year of interest. Defaults to c(1990, 2019). |
Returns a dyadic data frame of host country and stock country populations in for the years 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015, 2017, and 2019.
This dataset presents estimates of international migrant populations by origin. Estimates are presented for 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015, 2017, and 2019 and are available for all countries and areas of the world. The estimates are based on official statistics on the foreign-born or the foreign population.
This dataset may be acquired directly from the United Nations Department of
Economic and Social Affairs Population Division website and placed in your
working directory. The getUNref
function will import and process the
raw file if the original filenames are kept intact; otherwise they will be
downloaded directly.The
2019
and
2017
are still available online.