censosbo: Access and Analysis of Bolivian Census Microdata

Programmatic access to the microdata of the Bolivian population and housing censuses of 1976, 1992, 2001, 2012 and 2024, published by the National Statistics Institute of Bolivia (INE, https://www.ine.gob.bo/). Data files in Apache Parquet format are downloaded on demand from a companion data repository, cached locally, and can be filtered by department, province or municipality. Supports 'dplyr' workflows through Apache Arrow and SQL queries through 'DuckDB'. Includes variable dictionaries for every census year with a thematic taxonomy and contextual metadata (reference population, questionnaire item number and provenance of each variable), derived from the census questionnaires and from the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) files of the INE ANDA catalogue; functions to harmonise variables across censuses for temporal comparison; and choropleth maps at the department and municipality level. Also includes the 2024 census aggregates for urban blocks and rural communities, with their geometries. Documentation and messages are in Spanish, the language of the source data.

See also

Useful links:

• https://lab-tecnosocial.github.io/censosbo/

• https://github.com/lab-tecnosocial/censosbo

• Report bugs at https://github.com/lab-tecnosocial/censosbo/issues

Author

Maintainer: Alex Ojeda Copa alex@labtecnosocial.org (organization: Lab TecnoSocial) [copyright holder]

Authors:

• Alex Ojeda Copa alex@labtecnosocial.org (organization: Lab TecnoSocial) [copyright holder]

Other contributors:

• Lab TecnoSocial [copyright holder, funder]