/CleanCensusDat

Data wrangling of Census of Agriculture data (1981-2016) from Statistics Canada

Primary LanguageR

Clean Census of Agriculture Data from Statistics Canada (1981-2016)

The code and data presented here are associated with the publications:

Egina Malaj, Levi Freistadt, and Christy A. Morrissey (2020) Spatio-temporal patterns of crops and agrochemicals in Canada over 35 years. Frontiers in Environmental Science In Press

Egina Malaj, and Christy A. Morrissey Changes in insecticide use in Canada linked to landscape simplification over 20 years. In preparation

Data Sources

All raw data were obtained from: Statistics Canada, Census of Agriculture 1981-2016 Reproduced and distributed on an "as is" basis with the permission of Statistics Canada. Statistics Canada's open license can be found at: https://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/reference/licence

Resulting Dataset

Final dataset (542,040 cells) was created by cleaning and formatting 80 raw tables (17,782,907 cells) included in this repository. Final product is a censdat.RData file that will be used for other analyses.