Return ifo expectation data

Usage

ifo_expectation(type = c("export", "employment"))

Source

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

Arguments

type

character(1) Defaults to "employment". One of:

"export": returns the ifo export expectations for manufacturing.
"employment": returns the ifo employment barometer for Germany.

Value

A data.frame() containing the monthly ifo expectation time series.

Examples

# \donttest{
ifo_expectation("export")
#> # A tibble: 407 × 2
#>    yearmonth  expecation
#>    <date>          <dbl>
#>  1 1991-02-01     -5.95 
#>  2 1991-03-01     -8.09 
#>  3 1991-04-01     -4.92 
#>  4 1991-05-01     -4.78 
#>  5 1991-06-01     -3.20 
#>  6 1991-07-01     -0.440
#>  7 1991-08-01     -0.886
#>  8 1991-09-01      1.54 
#>  9 1991-10-01      3.06 
#> 10 1991-11-01      3.83 
#> # ℹ 397 more rows
# }