unemployment dataset

US Unemployment Rate

US monthly unemployment rate from January 1967 to November 2009; the 515 monthly observations are seasonally adjusted. UTF-8

unemployment

Format

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

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

Source

Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Examples

## de Carvalho et al (2013; Fig. 1)
data(unemployment)
plot(unemployment, xlab = "Time", ylab = "Unemployment Rate")