Reads and processes raw Zillow rent index data

Reads in the raw Zillow data, cleans up variable names and types, reshapes it to long form, and calculates an annual average from the monthly data.

process_zillow_data(file_path)

Arguments

file_path	A character string with the path to the raw data.

Value

A data frame with the annual average rent by zip code.

• zip: zip code (character)

• year: year (integer)

• annual_mean_rent: average annual Zillow rent index (numeric)

See also

build_coc_zillow_rent() for creating the CoC level Zillow rent index, build_tract_zillow_rent() for creating the census tract level Zillow rent index