In KOF-ch/kofdata: Get Data from the 'KOF Datenservice' API

knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  collapse = TRUE,
  comment = "#>"
)

library(kofdata)

The KOF API makes more than 500'000 time series about Swiss economy available. Hence thorough data descriptions are very important. For the lion's share of the data, i.e., those time series stemming from the business tendency surveys, meta descriptions are available in English, German, French and Italian. You can use iso 2-digit country codes to display a series description in the desired language.

get_metadata("ch.kof.inu.ng08.fx.q_ql_ass_bs.balance","it")


# $ch.kof.inu.ng08.fx.q_ql_ass_bs.balance
# $ch.kof.inu.ng08.fx.q_ql_ass_bs.balance$sa
# [1] "originale"

# $ch.kof.inu.ng08.fx.q_ql_ass_bs.balance$item
# [1] "saldo (quota in %)"

# $ch.kof.inu.ng08.fx.q_ql_ass_bs.balance$noga
# [1] "noga 2008"

# $ch.kof.inu.ng08.fx.q_ql_ass_bs.balance$region
# [1] "Svizzera totale"

# $ch.kof.inu.ng08.fx.q_ql_ass_bs.balance$sector
# [1] "settore totale (lettera nomenclatura generale delle attività economiche C # (ATTIVITÀ MANIFATTURIERE))"

# $ch.kof.inu.ng08.fx.q_ql_ass_bs.balance$source
# [1] "KOF Centro di ricerche congiunturali"

# $ch.kof.inu.ng08.fx.q_ql_ass_bs.balance$dataset
# [1] "inchiesta Industria"

# $ch.kof.inu.ng08.fx.q_ql_ass_bs.balance$variable
# [1] "situazione degli affari, sentenza"

# $ch.kof.inu.ng08.fx.q_ql_ass_bs.balance$variable_type
# [1] "domanda qualitativa con scala a 3 punti"

# $ch.kof.inu.ng08.fx.q_ql_ass_bs.balance$variable_period
# [1] "periodo totale"

Some Swissness

On an endnote: {kofdata} is made in Switzerland and can return official two character abbreviations for all 26 cantons (states).

kofdata::cantons()
# [1] "AG" "AR" "AI" "BL" "BS" "BE" "FR" "GE" "GL" # "GR" "JU" "LU" "NE"
# [14] "NW" "OW" "SH" "SZ" "SO" "SG" "TG" "TI" # "UR" "VS" "VD" "ZG" "ZH"

KOF-ch/kofdata documentation built on Feb. 6, 2024, 3:20 a.m.