This package provide a set of functions to access the ARDECO data directly from the official ARDECO public repository through the exploitation of the ARDECO API. The API are completely transparent to the user and the provided functions provide a direct access to the ARDECO data. The ARDECO (Annual Regional Database of the European Commission) database is a collection of variables related to demography, employment, labour market, domestic product, capital formation. Each variable can be exposed in one or more units of measure as well as refers to total values plus specific values related to different dimensions defined for each variable. For example, sex, age or economic sectors (NACE sectors as defined by EUROSTAT). In addition, for each variable having data at nuts level 3, it's possible to require aggregated data at tercet classes (absolute values or percentages). Currently the available tercet are Urban-Rural typology and Urban-Rural typology with remoteness. The description of the ARDECO database can be found at the following URL https://urban.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ardeco
This package provides four functions which are linked between them and have to be used in the following way.
ardeco_get_variable_list - to recover the list of the avavilable variables with related descritpion.
ardeco_get_dataset_list - After having identified the variable of interest, it's possible to identify the list of datasets included into the variable of interest. This function return the list of the dimensions defined into the selected variable with the possible values.
ardeco_get_tercet_list - this function return the list of tercet and related tercet class for which it's possible to aggregate data of a variable.
ardeco_get_dataset_data - To recover the data related to a variable it's possibile to do it by using just the variable code (recovering all variable data) or filtering it using unit, nuts version, levels, year, nutscode and all optional additional dimension (like sector, age, sex) recovered by ardeco_get_dataset_list. Permit also to aggregate the data by tercet (all tercet classes linked to the selected tercet) and also by single tercet_class, exposing absolute or percentage values.