Get CBIC PIM industrial production data

Complete workflow to get cleaned PIM (Pesquisa Industrial Mensal) industrial production index data from CBIC. This data tracks the physical production of typical construction industry inputs in Brazil.

Usage

get_cbic_pim(
  table = "production_index",
  cached = FALSE,
  quiet = FALSE,
  max_retries = 3L
)

Arguments

table

Character. Which dataset to return: "production_index" or "all" (default: "production_index")

cached

Logical. If TRUE, try to load data from cache first (default: FALSE)

quiet

Logical. If TRUE, suppress progress messages (default: FALSE)

max_retries

Integer. Maximum number of retry attempts for downloads (default: 3L)

Value

A tibble with PIM production index data, or a list if table = "all"

Details

The PIM data uses production index with base year 2022 = 100. The data covers monthly observations from 2012 onwards. Note that files 1 and 2 available on CBIC website contain historical data with discontinued methodologies and are not processed by this function.

Progress Reporting

When quiet = FALSE, the function provides detailed progress information about web scraping, file downloads, and data processing steps.

Error Handling

The function includes retry logic for failed downloads and robust error handling for malformed Excel files.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Get production index data (default)
production <- get_cbic_pim()

# Get all PIM datasets
all_pim <- get_cbic_pim(table = "all")

# Get data with progress reporting
production <- get_cbic_pim(quiet = FALSE)
} # }