Function to retrieve customized U.S. construction spending data.

Source: R/get_builddata.R

get_builddata() generates a customized data frame containing location-project-year observations of U.S. military construction and housing spending in thousands of current dollars.

get_builddata(host = NA, startyear, endyear)

Arguments

host

The Correlates of War (COW) numeric country code or ISO3C code for the host country or countries in the series
startyear

The first year for the series
endyear

The last year for the series

Value

get_builddata() returns a data frame containing location-project-year observations of U.S. military construction and housing spending in thousands of current dollars.

References

Michael A. Allen, Michael E. Flynn, and Carla Martinez Machain. 2020. "Outside the wire: US military deployments and public opinion in host states." American Political Science Review. 114(2): 326-341.

Author

Michael E. Flynn

Examples


if (FALSE) {
library(tidyverse)
library(troopdata)

example <- get_builddata(host = NA, startyear = 2008, endyear = 2019)

head(example)

}