iclaims {bsts}

Initial Claims Data

Description

A weekly time series of US initial claims for unemployment. The first column contains the initial claims numbers from FRED. The others contain a measure of the relative popularity of various search queries identified by Google Correlate.

Usage

data(iclaims)

Format

zoo time series

Source

FRED. http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/ICNSA,
Google correlate. http://www.google.com/trends/correlate

See Also

bsts

Examples

data(iclaims)
plot(initial.claims)