ces_download: Download data from the Current Employment Statistics (CES)...

In davidsovich/blsr: Accessing and manipulating Bureau of Labor Statistics and NAICS data from R.

Description

ces_download retrieves and downloads data from the Current Employment Statistics (CES) database.

Usage

ces_download(
  bls_key,
  start_year,
  end_year,
  adjustment,
  industries,
  data_types,
  states,
  clean = TRUE
)

Arguments

bls_key	BLS API key for the user. See vignette.
start_year	Year to start data download.
end_year	Year to end data download.
adjustment	Character vector. Seasonal adjustment ("S") or not ("U") or both.
industries	Character vector. See vignette. List of available industries given in ces_national_codes_list or ces_state_codes_list datasets.
data_types	Character vector. Desired output. See series vignette. List of available data_types given in ces_national_codes_list or ces_state_codes_list datasets.
states	Optional character vector. See vignette. Leave blank for total US. List of states given in ces_national_codes_list or ces_state_codes_list datasets.
clean	Optional logical. Whether to clean the data into usable format or not. Defaults to TRUE.

Details

This function constructs BLS series IDs for a chosen set of parameters and then downloads the data from the CES database. This function also cleans the data and appends on identifiers for easy panel formatting.

Value

Cleaned data frame of CES data.

Examples

ces_df = ces_download(bls_key = Sys.getenv("BLS_KEY"), start_year = 2010, end_year = 2015,
adjustment = "U", industries = "05000000", data_types = c("01", "03", "11"), states = "1900000")

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