download data sets from Statistics Denmark

You can use this function to retrieve data sets from Statistics Denmark. It also let you choose which variables to return.

dst_download(tableID, vars, lang = "en")

Arguments

tableID	the data set's ID. See dst_tables() to get the ID.
vars	the variables to return. If not specified it will return time and value of the what the data set measure.
lang	used language in the data set. Can take the values "da" for danish and "en" for english

Examples

dst_download("folk1a")
#> Warning: No vars is specified. Only time will be included
#> # A tibble: 38 x 2
#>           TID INDHOLD
#>        <date>   <dbl>
#>  1 2008-01-01 5475791
#>  2 2008-04-01 5482266
#>  3 2008-07-01 5489022
#>  4 2008-10-01 5505995
#>  5 2009-01-01 5511451
#>  6 2009-04-01 5515287
#>  7 2009-07-01 5519441
#>  8 2009-10-01 5532531
#>  9 2010-01-01 5534738
#> 10 2010-04-01 5540241
#> # ... with 28 more rows
dst_download("folk1a", c("ALDER", "CIVILSTAND"))
#> # A tibble: 24,130 x 4
#>           TID  ALDER        CIVILSTAND INDHOLD
#>        <date>  <chr>             <chr>   <dbl>
#>  1 2008-01-01  Total             Total 5475791
#>  2 2008-01-01  Total     Never married 2552700
#>  3 2008-01-01  Total Married/separated 2176977
#>  4 2008-01-01  Total           Widowed  317250
#>  5 2008-01-01  Total          Divorced  428864
#>  6 2008-01-01 0 year             Total   64412
#>  7 2008-01-01 0 year     Never married   64412
#>  8 2008-01-01 0 year Married/separated       0
#>  9 2008-01-01 0 year           Widowed       0
#> 10 2008-01-01 0 year          Divorced       0
#> # ... with 24,120 more rows