unemployrate {BAYSTAR}

U.S. monthly civilian unemployment rate

Description

U.S. monthly civilian unemployment rate, seasonally adjusted and measured in percentage, from January 1948 to March 2004. The data set is available in Tsay (2005).

Usage

data(unemployrate)

Format

unemployrate is a data frame with 675 observations

Source

The data are obtained from the Bureau of Labor statistics, Department of Labor.

References

Tsay, R.S. (2005) Analysis of Financial Time Series. Second ed. Wiley, Hoboken.

Examples

data(unemployrate)
plot.ts(unemployrate)