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South Korea Census Data

Source: R/datasets.R
censuskor.Rd

District level data including tax, population, business entities, and mortality in South Korea in 2010, 2015, and/or 2020. The availble years and variables depend on the type of data.

Usage

censuskor

Format

A data.frame with 5178 rows and 9 variables:

Source

  • KOSIS (Korean Statistical Information Service)

Details

  • year Year of the census data, e.g., 2010, 2015, or 2020

  • adm1 Name of the province-level (Sido) administrative unit

  • adm1_code Code of the province-level (Sido) administrative unit

  • adm2 Name of the district/municipal-level (Sigungu) administrative unit

  • adm2_code Code of the district/municipal-level (Sigungu) administrative unit

  • type Type of variable, e.g., "population", "tax", "mortality", "housing", or "economy"

  • class1 First-level classification of the variable depending on the type

  • class2 Second-level classification of the variable depending on the type

  • unit Unit of measurement for the variable

  • value Value of the variable

Note

For temporal comparison, province names in adm1 field are standardized to the common names with no suffix in metropolitan cities and "-do" suffix in provinces. For example, "Seoul" instead of "Seoul Metropolitan City", and "Jeollabuk-do" instead of "Jeonbuk State". "KRW" in the unit field stands for South Korean Won. Values are as-is unless otherwise noted in the unit field (e.g., "per 100k population" or "million KRW").