João Pedro Azevedo

João Pedro Azevedo

Chief Statistician @ UNICEF | Development Economist

unicefdata (Python)

Python package for downloading UNICEF child welfare indicators via SDMX API.

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Installation

Python pip install unicefdata

Description

unicefdata is a Python package that provides a consistent interface for downloading UNICEF child welfare indicators via the SDMX API. It is part of a trilingual family of packages (R, Python, and Stata) that maintain cross-language test parity, ensuring identical results across all three implementations.

Key features:

  • Access UNICEF global indicator databases
  • Multilingual metadata support
  • Cross-language test parity with R and Stata implementations

Example

import unicefdata
df = unicefdata.get_indicator("PT_CHLD_UNDER5")
df.head()

Documentation