Unemployment Data

get_unemployment()

Retrieves Brazil’s quarterly unemployment rate from IBGE’s Continuous PNAD.

Parameters

start_year: Starting year (e.g., 2015)
end_year: Ending year (e.g., 2024)
language: Labels language - "eng" (default) or "pt"

Usage

library(brfinance)

# English version
unemp_eng <- get_unemployment(2018, 2024, language = "eng")
head(unemp_eng)

# Portuguese version
unemp_pt <- get_unemployment(2018, 2024, language = "pt") 
head(unemp_pt)

Output Structure

English:

# A tibble: 28 × 2
   date        rate
   <date>     <dbl>
 1 2018-01-01  12.2
 2 2018-04-01  12.9

Portuguese:

# A tibble: 28 × 2
   data        taxa
   <date>     <dbl>
 1 2018-01-01  12.2

plot_unemployment()

Generates a line chart of unemployment rate.

Parameters

data: Data from get_unemployment()
language: Plot labels - "eng" (default) or "pt"

Usage

library(brfinance)

# Get data
unemp_data <- get_unemployment(2020, 2024)

# Create plot
unemp_plot <- plot_unemployment(unemp_data, language = "eng")
print(unemp_plot)


# Portuguese version
unemp_data2 <- get_unemployment(2020, 2024, language = "pt")
unemp_plot_pt <- plot_unemployment(unemp_data2, language = "pt")
print(unemp_plot_pt)