The GV100 format is used by DESTATIS to publish the German municipality register
Arguments
- file
path to file
- stzrt
integer to select the administrative level (see details)
- version
which GV100 version. If NULL the version is guessed based on the file name.
- encoding
encoding of the file
- ...
other parameters passed to
read_fwf
Details
The Gemeindeverzeichnis (municipality register) is published in a fixed width file refered to as "GV1000 ASCII Format" by DESTATIS. The register features the list of municipality and higher order administrative units. The function is a wrapper around [readr::read_fwf()].
There are two types of files: One feature the administrative
information (version="AD") and one with non-administrative
(version="NAD"). If version=NULL, read_gv100() guess the
type based on the file name.
To select a particular administrative unit use the stzrt argument (Satzart). For the AD version, the following choices are possible:
10 - Länder (states) 20 - Regierungsbezirke 30 - Regionsdaten (only Baden-Württemberg) 40 - Kreise (counties) 50 - Gemeindeverbandsdaten 60 - Gemeinden (municipalities)
For the NAD version only:
41 - Kreise (counties) 61 - Gemeinden (municipalities)
Since about 2019, the Gemeindeverzeichnis is using UTF-8 encoding rather than ISO-8859-1.