bcb_inflation: Fetch Banco Central do Brasil (BCB) inflation expectations

In bbk: Client for Central Bank APIs

Fetch Banco Central do Brasil (BCB) inflation expectations

Description

Retrieve the rolling 12- or 24-month inflation expectations from the Banco Central do Brasil Focus survey (Relatório Focus) via the Olinda API.

Usage

bcb_inflation(
  horizon = "12m",
  indicator = NULL,
  start_date = NULL,
  end_date = NULL
)

Arguments

horizon	(character(1)) The forecast horizon, either "12m" (next 12 months) or "24m" (next 24 months). Default "12m".
indicator	(NULL | character(1)) The economic indicator to filter on (e.g. "IPCA", "Selic", "Câmbio"). If NULL, all indicators are returned. Default NULL.
start_date	(NULL | Date(1) | character(1)) Start of the survey date range (e.g., "2024-01-01"). If NULL, no lower bound is applied. Default NULL.
end_date	(NULL | Date(1) | character(1)) End of the survey date range, in the same format as start_date. If NULL, no upper bound is applied. Default NULL.

Value

A data.table::data.table() with columns date, indicator, smoothed, mean, median, sd, min, max, respondents, and base. The smoothed column indicates whether the forecast is the smoothed (suavizada) series.

Source

https://dadosabertos.bcb.gov.br/

See Also

Other data: banxico_data(), bbk_data(), bbk_series(), bcb_data(), bcb_expectations(), bcb_fx_rates(), bcb_selic(), bcb_top5(), bde_data(), bde_latest(), bdf_codelist(), bdf_data(), bdf_dataset(), bdp_data(), bis_data(), boc_data(), boe_data(), boi_data(), boj_data(), cnb_czeonia(), cnb_data(), cnb_fx_other_rates(), cnb_fx_rates(), cnb_pribor(), ecb_data(), nbp_fx_rates(), nbp_gold(), nob_data(), onb_data(), snb_data(), srb_cross_rates(), srb_data()

Examples

# next-12-months IPCA inflation expectations
bcb_inflation("12m", "IPCA", start_date = "2024-01-01", end_date = "2024-01-31")

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