nomisr

nomisr is for accessing Nomis data with R. Nomis contains labour market statistics, data on benefits, demographic data and census data.

Installation

You can install nomisr from github with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("evanodell/nomisr")

Using nomisr

The example below gets the latest data on Jobseeker’s Allowance with rates and proportions, on a national level, with all male claimants and workforce.

 library(nomisr)
 z <- nomis_get_data(id="NM_1_1", time="latest", geography="TYPE499", measures=c(20100, 20201), sex=5)
 tibble::glimpse(z)
#> Observations: 70
#> Variables: 34
#> $ DATE                <chr> "2017-12", "2017-12", "2017-12", "2017-12"...
#> $ DATE_NAME           <chr> "December 2017", "December 2017", "Decembe...
#> $ DATE_CODE           <chr> "2017-12", "2017-12", "2017-12", "2017-12"...
#> $ DATE_TYPE           <chr> "date", "date", "date", "date", "date", "d...
#> $ DATE_TYPECODE       <int> 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, ...
#> $ DATE_SORTORDER      <int> 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, ...
#> $ GEOGRAPHY           <int> 2092957697, 2092957697, 2092957697, 209295...
#> $ GEOGRAPHY_NAME      <chr> "United Kingdom", "United Kingdom", "Unite...
#> $ GEOGRAPHY_CODE      <chr> "K02000001", "K02000001", "K02000001", "K0...
#> $ GEOGRAPHY_TYPE      <chr> "countries", "countries", "countries", "co...
#> $ GEOGRAPHY_TYPECODE  <int> 499, 499, 499, 499, 499, 499, 499, 499, 49...
#> $ GEOGRAPHY_SORTORDER <int> 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, ...
#> $ SEX                 <int> 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, ...
#> $ SEX_NAME            <chr> "Male", "Male", "Male", "Male", "Male", "M...
#> $ SEX_CODE            <int> 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, ...
#> $ SEX_TYPE            <chr> "sex", "sex", "sex", "sex", "sex", "sex", ...
#> $ SEX_TYPECODE        <int> 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, ...
#> $ SEX_SORTORDER       <int> 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, ...
#> $ ITEM                <int> 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 9, 9, 1, 1, 2, 2, ...
#> $ ITEM_NAME           <chr> "Total claimants", "Total claimants", "Stu...
#> $ ITEM_CODE           <int> 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 9, 9, 1, 1, 2, 2, ...
#> $ ITEM_TYPE           <chr> "item", "item", "item", "item", "item", "i...
#> $ ITEM_TYPECODE       <int> 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, ...
#> $ ITEM_SORTORDER      <int> 0, 0, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 0, 0, 1, 1, ...
#> $ MEASURES            <int> 20100, 20201, 20100, 20201, 20100, 20201, ...
#> $ MEASURES_NAME       <chr> "Persons claiming JSA", "Workplace-based e...
#> $ OBS_VALUE           <dbl> 263614.0, 1.4, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA,...
#> $ OBS_STATUS          <chr> "A", "A", "Q", "Q", "Q", "Q", "Q", "Q", "Q...
#> $ OBS_STATUS_NAME     <chr> "Normal Value", "Normal Value", "These fig...
#> $ OBS_CONF            <lgl> FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, ...
#> $ OBS_CONF_NAME       <chr> "Free (free for publication)", "Free (free...
#> $ URN                 <chr> "Nm-1d1d32284e0d2092957697d5d1d20100", "Nm...
#> $ RECORD_OFFSET       <int> 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, ...
#> $ RECORD_COUNT        <int> 70, 70, 70, 70, 70, 70, 70, 70, 70, 70, 70...

There is a lot of data available through Nomis, and there are some limits to the amount of data that can be retrieved within a certain period of time, although those are not published. For more details, see the full API documentation from Nomis. Full package documentation is available at docs.evanodell.com/nomisr