Get OECD productivity data

Downloads (and caches) labour productivity data for OECD member countries from the OECD Productivity Database (PDB).

Usage

get_oecd_productivity(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

"GDP_PER_HOUR" or "GDP_PER_CAPITA" (character)

value

Productivity value (numeric)

unit

Unit of measurement (character)

Details

Returns GDP per hour worked where available (in USD purchasing power parities), falling back to GDP per capita. Values are at current prices.

See also

Other productivity and trade: get_oecd_current_account()

Examples

# \donttest{
op <- options(readoecd.cache_dir = tempdir())
prod <- try(get_oecd_productivity(c("AUS", "GBR", "USA"), start_year = 2000))
#> Downloading from OECD API...
if (!inherits(prod, "try-error")) head(prod)
#>    country country_name year       series    value      unit
#> 64     AUS    Australia 2000 GDP_PER_HOUR 53.95722 USD_PPP_H
#> 65     AUS    Australia 2001 GDP_PER_HOUR 55.98626 USD_PPP_H
#> 66     AUS    Australia 2002 GDP_PER_HOUR 56.49016 USD_PPP_H
#> 1      AUS    Australia 2003 GDP_PER_HOUR 58.05914 USD_PPP_H
#> 2      AUS    Australia 2004 GDP_PER_HOUR 58.23817 USD_PPP_H
#> 3      AUS    Australia 2005 GDP_PER_HOUR 58.71849 USD_PPP_H
options(op)
# }