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Get China's Consumer Price Index from World Bank

Source: R/get_china_cpi.R
get_china_cpi.Rd

Retrieves China's Consumer Price Index (2010 = 100) for the years 2010 to 2022 using the World Bank Open Data API. The indicator used is FP.CPI.TOTL.

Usage

get_china_cpi()

Source

World Bank Open Data API: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/FP.CPI.TOTL

Value

A tibble with the following columns:

  • indicator: Indicator name (e.g., "Consumer price index (2010 = 100)")

  • country: Country name ("China")

  • year: Year of the data (integer)

  • value: Consumer Price Index value in numeric form

Details

The function sends a GET request to the World Bank API. If the API request fails or returns an error status code, the function returns NULL with an informative message.

Note

Requires internet connection. The data is retrieved in real time from the World Bank API.

See also

GET, fromJSON, as_tibble

Examples

if (interactive()) {
  get_china_cpi()
}