FARS variable names and labels

A table of FARS table variable names extracted from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) Analytical User's Manual, 1975-2019, documentation of the SAS format data files.

Usage

fars_vars_labels

Format

A data frame with 749 rows and 15 variables:

name

character Variable name

label

character Variable label

order

double Sort order

data_file

character SAS data file name

data_file_id

double SAS data file ID

file_id

character File ID

key

logical Indicator for key variables

location

double Location in SAS data file

mmuc_equivalent

logical Equivalent term in MMUC (placeholder)

discontinued

logical Indicator for discontinued variables

api_only

logical Indicator for variables only used by API

api

character Name(s) of corresponding CrashAPI service (e.g. "Details" for GetCaseDetails or "FARS data" for GetFARSData)

name_var

logical Indicator for "NAME" variable returned by API

nm

Short version of the variable name

api_list_col

logical Indicator for list columns returned by API

Details

This table is used for column order, CrashAPI metadata, and variable labels for columns that are only returned by the CrashAPI. Use fars_variables() for complete, year-specific variable labels from the SAS data files that NHTSA publishes for each year.

The source data is installed with the package as a CSV file (system.file("extdata", "fars_vars_labels.csv", package = "crashapi")) with column definitions in fars_vars_labels_definitions.csv.

Added: January 31 2022 Updated: March 27 2022