DATAstudio (version 1.2.1)

claims: Initial Claims of Unemployment

Description

Weekly number (in thousands) of unemployment insurance claims in the US from 7 Jan 1967 until 28 Nov 2009.

Usage

claims

Format

A time series with 515 observations; the object is of class tis (time-indexed series).

References

de Carvalho, M., Turkman, K. F. and Rua, A. (2013) Dynamic threshold modelling and the US business cycle. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Ser. C, 62, 535-550.

See Also

https://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~mdecarv/decarvalho2013ash.html

Examples

## de Carvalho et al (2013; Fig 1)
data(claims)
plot(time(claims), claims, type = "l",
     xlab = "Time", ylab = "Initial Claims (in Thousands)")