Brazilian subnational governments fiscal data

This package aims to make available in machine readable format regional discriminated data on the fiscal variables that are needed to compute the fiscal indicators used by the Brazilian National Treasury Secretariat (NTS) for payment capacity evaluation.

Installation

This package can be installed directly from GitHub using devtools:

if (!require("devtools")) {
    install.packages("devtools")
}
devtools::install_github("fjuniorr/junior2017")

Alternatively, a csv file with the dataset can be downloaded here.

Code examples

The dataset documentation can be accessed with

library(junior2017)
?fiscal_data

As an example of using the data, figure 3.1c of Junior (2017) can be reproduced with

library(ggplot2)

data("fiscal_data")

ggplot(fiscal_data, aes(x = factor(year), y = capag_il, color = state_calamity)) +
    geom_boxplot(position=position_dodge(1)) +
    xlab("Year") + 
    ylab("Current liabilities / Cash and cash equivalents") +
    theme(legend.position=c(0.05,0.95), legend.justification=c(0,1)) +
    theme(panel.border = element_blank()) +
    scale_color_discrete(name = "Financial calamity declared", labels = c("no (n = 216)", "yes (n = 27)")) +
    guides(color=guide_legend(reverse=TRUE))

References

Junior, Francisco Alves de Oliveira. 2017. “Assessing Fiscal Distress in Subnational Governments: The Case of Brazil.” Master’s thesis, Department of Economics; Related Studies - University of York.