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Get Japan's Unemployment Rate from World Bank

Source: R/get_japan_unemployment.R
get_japan_unemployment.Rd

Retrieves Japan's Unemployment, total ( for the years 2010 to 2022 using the World Bank Open Data API. The indicator used is SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS.

Usage

get_japan_unemployment()

Source

World Bank Open Data API: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS

Value

A tibble with the following columns, or NULL if the API is unavailable:

  • indicator: Indicator name (e.g., "Unemployment, total (

  • country: Country name ("Japan")

  • year: Year of the data (integer)

  • value: Unemployment rate as percentage 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

# \donttest{
# Requires internet connection
result <- get_japan_unemployment()
if (!is.null(result)) {
  print(result)
}
#> # A tibble: 13 × 4
#>    indicator                                                 country  year value
#>    <chr>                                                     <chr>   <int> <dbl>
#>  1 Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled IL… Japan    2022  2.6 
#>  2 Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled IL… Japan    2021  2.83
#>  3 Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled IL… Japan    2020  2.81
#>  4 Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled IL… Japan    2019  2.35
#>  5 Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled IL… Japan    2018  2.47
#>  6 Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled IL… Japan    2017  2.82
#>  7 Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled IL… Japan    2016  3.13
#>  8 Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled IL… Japan    2015  3.38
#>  9 Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled IL… Japan    2014  3.59
#> 10 Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled IL… Japan    2013  4.04
#> 11 Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled IL… Japan    2012  4.36
#> 12 Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled IL… Japan    2011  4.55
#> 13 Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled IL… Japan    2010  5.10
# }