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Normalize district names to current canonical names

Source: R/utils.R
normalize_district_names.Rd

Replaces historical district names with their current canonical names (as of 2025 NM PED data). This ensures consistent district identification across years when tracking by district_name rather than district_id.

Usage

normalize_district_names(df)

Arguments

df

Data frame with a district_name column

Value

Data frame with district names normalized to canonical names

Details

Several NM districts changed names between 2019 and 2025:

  • CENTRAL CONS. / CENTRAL CONSOLIDATED -> CENTRAL

  • HATCH -> HATCH VALLEY

  • FT SUMNER -> FORT SUMNER

  • and 20+ others (see get_district_name_map for the full list)

This function is applied automatically during process_enr, so fetch_enr output already uses canonical names. You only need to call this directly if working with raw data from get_raw_enr.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Applied automatically by fetch_enr, but can be used manually:
raw <- get_raw_enr(2019)
processed <- process_enr(raw, 2019)
# district names are already normalized

# Or normalize manually:
df <- data.frame(district_name = c("CENTRAL CONS.", "HATCH", "ALBUQUERQUE"))
normalize_district_names(df)
#   district_name
# 1       CENTRAL
# 2  HATCH VALLEY
# 3   ALBUQUERQUE
} # }