senso: An Interface to the Philippine Census of Population and Housing Data

The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) makes census of population and housing data publicly available through various data publications and releases over time via their website. This package provides utilities for accessing and processing the census of population and housing data released by the PSA.

What does senso do?

Please note that senso is still highly experimental and is undergoing a lot of development. Hence, any functionalities described below and in the rest of the package documentation have a high likelihood of changing interface or approach as we aim for a stable working version.

Currently, the package’s main functionalities are:

• Retrieval and/or download of census of population and housing data for every census conducted released by the PSA on their website;

• Standardised naming of census of population and housing statistical table files;

• Upload and/or archive raw census of population and housing data releases onto specific platforms; and,

• Process raw census of population and housing data releases into machine-readable and relational database-ready structures.

Installation

senso is not yet on CRAN but can be installed from the panukatan R universe as follows:

install.packages(
  "senso",
  repos = c('https://panukatan.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org')
)

Usage

Citation

If you find the senso package useful please cite using the suggested citation provided by a call to the citation() function as follows:

citation("senso")
#> To cite senso in publications use:
#> 
#>   Ernest Guevarra (2024). talaan: An Interface to the Philippine Census
#>   of Population and Housing Data R package version 0.0.0.9000 URL
#>   https://panukatan.io/senso/
#> 
#> A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
#> 
#>   @Manual{,
#>     title = {senso: An Interface to the Philippine Census of Population and Housing Data},
#>     author = {{Ernest Guevarra}},
#>     year = {2024},
#>     note = {R package version 0.0.0.9000},
#>     url = {https://panukatan.io/senso/},
#>   }

Community guidelines

Feedback, bug reports and feature requests are welcome; file issues or seek support here. If you would like to contribute to the package, please see our contributing guidelines.

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