unemployment {DATAstudio}

US Unemployment Rate

Description

US monthly unemployment rate from January 1967 to November 2009; the 515 monthly observations are seasonally adjusted.

Usage

unemployment

Format

A time series with 515 observations; the object is of class ts.

Source

Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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(unemployment)
plot(unemployment, xlab = "Time", ylab = "Unemployment Rate")