Get per capita household size with household size distribution

Returns the per capita household size for a location given its household size distribution. See get_household_size_distribution() function for retrieving household size distributions for a given place.

Usage

per_capita_household_size(
  household_data,
  household_size_col = household_size,
  n_people_col = n_people
)

Arguments

household_data

data set with information on the household size distribution of specific state or LGA.

household_size_col

bare variable name of the column depicting the household size. Default is 'household_size' from abs_per_capita_household_size_lga().

n_people_col

bare variable name of the column depicting the total number of people belonging to the respective household size. Default is 'n_people' from abs_per_capita_household_size_lga().

Value

Numeric of length 1 - the per capita household size for a given state or LGA.

Author

Nick Golding

Examples

demo_data <- abs_household_size_population(lga = "Fairfield (C)")
demo_data
#> # A tibble: 8 × 5
#>    year state lga           household_size n_people
#>   <dbl> <chr> <chr>                  <dbl>    <dbl>
#> 1  2016 NSW   Fairfield (C)              1     9002
#> 2  2016 NSW   Fairfield (C)              2    26776
#> 3  2016 NSW   Fairfield (C)              3    31599
#> 4  2016 NSW   Fairfield (C)              4    44676
#> 5  2016 NSW   Fairfield (C)              5    33890
#> 6  2016 NSW   Fairfield (C)              6    21216
#> 7  2016 NSW   Fairfield (C)              7     9800
#> 8  2016 NSW   Fairfield (C)              8    10976
per_capita_household_size(
  household_data = demo_data,
  household_size_col = household_size,
  n_people_col = n_people
)
#> [1] 4.199372