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Get Peru's Unemployment Rate (Total) from World Bank

Source: R/get_peru_unemployment.R
get_peru_unemployment.Rd

Retrieves Peru's total unemployment rate, measured as a percentage of the total labor force, for the years 2010 to 2022 using the World Bank Open Data API. The indicator used is SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS.

Usage

get_peru_unemployment()

Source

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

Value

A tibble with the following columns:

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

  • country: Country name ("Peru")

  • year: Year of the data (integer)

  • value: Unemployment rate as a numeric value (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

if (interactive()) {
  get_peru_unemployment()
}