Get OECD education expenditure data

Downloads (and caches) total education expenditure as a share of GDP for OECD member countries from the OECD Education at a Glance (EAG) UOE Finance database.

Usage

get_oecd_education(countries = "all", start_year = 1990, refresh = FALSE)

Arguments

countries

Character vector of ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country codes, or "all" for all available OECD members. Defaults to "all". Run list_oecd_countries() to see available codes.

start_year

Numeric. Earliest year to include. Defaults to 1990.

refresh

Logical. If TRUE, re-download even if a cached copy exists. Defaults to FALSE.

Value

A data frame with columns:

country

ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code (character)

country_name

English country name (character)

year

Calendar year (integer)

series

"EDU_EXPENDITURE" (character)

value

Total education expenditure as a share of GDP (numeric)

unit

"% of GDP" (character)

Details

Education expenditure covers spending on educational institutions across all levels of education (ISCED 0–8), from all public and private sources, expressed as a percentage of GDP.

See also

Other social indicators: get_oecd_health(), get_oecd_inequality()

Examples

# \donttest{
op <- options(readoecd.cache_dir = tempdir())
edu <- try(get_oecd_education(c("AUS", "GBR", "USA"), start_year = 2000))
#> Downloading from OECD API...
if (!inherits(edu, "try-error")) head(edu)
#>     country country_name year          series     value     unit
#> 76      AUS    Australia 2000 EDU_EXPENDITURE 0.0544171 % of GDP
#> 91      AUS    Australia 2000 EDU_EXPENDITURE 0.0898196 % of GDP
#> 226     AUS    Australia 2000 EDU_EXPENDITURE 0.0354025 % of GDP
#> 646     AUS    Australia 2000 EDU_EXPENDITURE 3.7549170 % of GDP
#> 676     AUS    Australia 2000 EDU_EXPENDITURE 1.6030780 % of GDP
#> 706     AUS    Australia 2000 EDU_EXPENDITURE 0.4119364 % of GDP
options(op)
# }