ifo_vintage: Return ifo business climate vintage data

In ifo: Client for the Ifo Institute Time Series

Return ifo business climate vintage data

Description

Return ifo business climate vintage data

Usage

ifo_vintage(
  type = c("germany", "industry", "manufacturing", "services", "trade", "wholesale",
    "retail", "construction")
)

Arguments

type	(character(1)) Defaults to "germany". One of: "germany": returns the vintages of the ifo business climate index for Germany. "industry", "manufacturing", "services", "trade", "wholesale", "retail", "construction": returns the vintages of the ifo business climate for the sector.

Details

A vintage is the time series as published in a given month. Each vintage runs from the start of the series to its own release month, so later vintages contain more months and may revise earlier values, for example through seasonal adjustment. The output contains one observation per row in value. The other columns describe each observation:

• yearmonth: the observed month.

• vintage: the first day of the month in which the series was published.

• indicator: climate, situation, or expectation.

• series: index or balance.

type = "germany" and type = "industry" return an index with 2015 = 100. All other sectors return balances. type = "industry" corresponds to "Industry and Trade" in the source. ifo updates the vintage workbooks less often than the monthly releases, so the latest vintage can lag the current ifo_business() release by several months.

Value

A data.frame() containing the monthly ifo business climate vintages in long format.

Source

https://www.ifo.de/en/ifo-time-series

Examples

vintage <- ifo_vintage("germany")
head(vintage)

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