find_table {ppitables}

Search for PPI table by specifying region, country and/or calculation type.

Description

Search for PPI table by specifying region, country and/or calculation type.

Usage

find_table(
  region = steer$region,
  country = steer$country[steer$region %in% region],
  type = steer$type[steer$country %in% country]
)

Arguments

region

Region of the world to search PPI table from. Default is c("Africa", "Asia", "Eastern Europe and Central Asia", "Latin America and the Carribean", "Middle East and North Africa"). Allows specification of one region or a vector of regions.

country

Country to search PPI table from. Default is vector of all country names from the specified region/s. Allows specification of one country name or a vector of country names.

type

Type of PPI calculation used. Can be one of two options: "sps" for the Simple Poverty Scorecard calculation or "ipa" for the International Poverty Alliance calculation. Default is vector of all calculation types available for the specified country/ies.

Value

A data frame in tibble format of corresponding PPI table/s matching the search parameters. The data frame contains information on the region, country, description, survey year, release year, calculation type, and filename of the returned PPI table/s.

Examples

## View the full data frame of all the PPI tables available through ppitables
find_table()