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educabR (version 0.1.0)

educabR-package: educabR: Download and Process Brazilian Education Data from INEP

Description

Download and process public education data from INEP (Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais Anísio Teixeira). Provides functions to access microdata from the School Census (Censo Escolar), ENEM (Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio), IDEB (Índice de Desenvolvimento da Educação Básica), and other educational datasets. Returns data in tidy format ready for analysis. Data source: INEP Open Data Portal https://www.gov.br/inep/pt-br/acesso-a-informacao/dados-abertos.

The educabR package provides functions to download and process public education data from INEP (Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais Anísio Teixeira). It offers easy access to microdata from:

  • School Census (Censo Escolar): Annual data on schools, enrollment, teachers, and classes in basic education

  • ENEM: Data from the National High School Exam

  • IDEB: Basic Education Development Index

All functions return data in tidy format, ready for analysis with tidyverse tools.

Arguments

Main functions

School Census:

  • get_censo_escolar(): Download School Census microdata

ENEM:

  • get_enem(): Download ENEM microdata

IDEB:

  • get_ideb(): Download IDEB data

Cache system

The package implements a local cache system to avoid repeated downloads. Use set_cache_dir() to configure a persistent cache directory. See get_cache_dir() to check the current cache location.

Data source

All data is downloaded from INEP's official portal: https://www.gov.br/inep/pt-br/acesso-a-informacao/dados-abertos/microdados

Author

Maintainer: Sidney da Silva Pereira Bissoli sbissoli76@gmail.com (ORCID)

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