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license: MIT
title: 'obr: Access ''Office for Budget Responsibility'' Data'
version: 0.5.0
identifiers:
- type: doi
  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.obr
abstract: Provides clean, tidy access to data published by the 'Office for Budget
  Responsibility' ('OBR'), the UK's independent fiscal watchdog. Covers the Public
  Finances Databank (outturn for PSNB, PSND, receipts, and expenditure since 1946),
  the Historical Official Forecasts Database (every 'OBR' forecast since 2010), the
  Economic and Fiscal Outlook detailed forecast tables (five-year projections from
  the latest Budget), the Welfare Trends Report (incapacity benefit spending and caseloads),
  and the Fiscal Risks and Sustainability Report (50-year state pension projections).
  All returned objects carry provenance metadata recording the source URL, publication
  vintage, retrieval time, and file fingerprint, so analyses can be audited and reproduced.
  Data is downloaded from the 'OBR' on first use and cached locally for subsequent
  calls. Data is sourced from the 'OBR' website <https://obr.uk>.
authors:
- family-names: Coverdale
  given-names: Charles
  email: charlesfcoverdale@gmail.com
preferred-citation:
  type: manual
  title: 'obr: Access Office for Budget Responsibility Forecast Data'
  authors:
  - family-names: Coverdale
    given-names: Charles
    email: charlesfcoverdale@gmail.com
  year: '2026'
  notes: R package version 0.5.0
  url: https://github.com/charlescoverdale/obr
repository: https://charlescoverdale.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/charlescoverdale/obr
commit: 2649862747ddf584c7c0977460da928b3a9db47e
url: https://charlescoverdale.github.io/obr/
date-released: '2026-05-07'
contact:
- family-names: Coverdale
  given-names: Charles
  email: charlesfcoverdale@gmail.com