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Get Peru's Adult Literacy Rate

Source: R/get_peru_literacy_rate.R
get_peru_literacy_rate.Rd

Retrieves Peru's adult literacy rate ( for the years 2010 to 2022 using the World Bank Open Data API. The indicator used is SE.ADT.LITR.ZS.

Usage

get_peru_literacy_rate()

Source

World Bank Open Data API: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.ADT.LITR.ZS

Value

A tibble with the following columns:

  • indicator: Indicator name

  • country: Country name ("Peru")

  • year: Year of the data (integer)

  • value: Literacy rate as a percentage

Details

This 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.

See also

GET, fromJSON, as_tibble

Examples

# \donttest{
  literacy_data <- get_peru_literacy_rate()
  head(literacy_data)
#> # A tibble: 6 × 4
#>   indicator                                                  country  year value
#>   <chr>                                                      <chr>   <int> <int>
#> 1 Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) Peru     2022    NA
#> 2 Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) Peru     2021    NA
#> 3 Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) Peru     2020    94
#> 4 Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) Peru     2019    NA
#> 5 Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) Peru     2018    94
#> 6 Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) Peru     2017    94
# }