Python brazilian currency deflator

A simple python package to deflate historical yearly or monthly values using IPCA (Consumers Broad Price Index).

Throught IPEA Data's API the function gather historical IPCA yearly (PRECOS_IPCAG series) and monthly (PRECOS12_IPCAG12 series) indexes to deflate currency values.

Installation:

• pandas and requests packages are required in your environment (python -m pip install pandas requests).
• Install the package (pip install deflatepybr)

Usage:

The function takes 5 arguments:

• data_frame: A Pandas.DataFrame with the data;
• value_column(str): A column containing the values to deflate;
• date_column(str): Column name from data_frame with the date range;
• deflate_year(int): Year that you wanna deflate the series to;
• deflate_month(int), optional: Month to deflate if you need monthly index values.

If only deflate_year is passed, the functions assumes that Yearly values are desired.

Examples can be found in the example.ipynb jupyter notebook file available on the project's Github page.