PDHS: Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey

Version : 0.1.0; Copyright (C) 2019-2020: UAF; License: GPL-2|GPL-3

Muhammad Yaseen

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan.

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Description

Provides data set and function for exploration of Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey (PDHS) data (http://nips.org.pk/Home.htm). The 2017-18 Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey (PDHS) is designed to provide data for monitoring the health situation in Pakistan. The 2017-18 PDHS is the 4th DHS survey conducted in Pakistan since 1990-91. It provides reliable estimates at the national level, for urban and rural areas, and for 4 regions and 4 provinces. The national total for indicators excludes Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan.

Installation

The package can be installed from CRAN as follows:

install.packages("PDHS", dependencies = TRUE)

The development version can be installed from github as follows:

if (!require("remotes")) install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("myaseen208/PDHS")

What’s new

To know whats new in this version type:

news(package = "PDHS")

Links

CRAN page

Github page

Documentation website

Citing PDHS

To cite the methods in the package use:

citation("PDHS")

To cite the R package 'PakPMICS2018' in publications use:

  Muhammad Yaseen (2020).  PakPMICS2018: Multiple Indicator Cluster
  Survey (MICS) 2017-18 Data for Punjab, Pakistan.R package version
  1.0.0 ,
  https://myaseen208.github.io/PakPMICS2018/https://cran.r-project.org/package=PakPMICS2018.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Manual{,
    title = {PakPMICS2018: Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) 2017-18 Data for Punjab, Pakistan},
    author = {{Muhammad Yaseen}},
    year = {2020},
    note = {R package version 1.0.0},
    note = {https://myaseen208.github.io/PakPMICS2018/ },
    note = {https://cran.r-project.org/package=PakPMICS2018},
  }

This free and open-source software implements academic research by the
authors and co-workers. If you use it, please support the project by
citing the package.