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

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.

Usage

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) { # \dontrun{
library(tidyverse)
library(troopdata)

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

head(example)

} # }