João Pedro Azevedo

João Pedro Azevedo

Chief Statistician @ UNICEF | Development Economist

unicefData (R)

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

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Installation

R install.packages('unicefData')

Description

unicefData is an R 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 Python and Stata implementations

Example

library(unicefData)
df <- unicefData::get_indicator("PT_CHLD_UNDER5")
head(df)

Documentation