fredmd_description: FRED-MD Data Set Description

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FRED-MD Data Set Description

Description

A description of the FRED-MD data set.

Usage

data(fredmd_description)

Format

A data frame with 135 rows and 9 variables. The variables are as follows:

id

series ID number

tcode

code of transformation

ttype

type of transformation

fred

variable name used in the FRED-MD data set

description

description of the series

gsi

variable name used in the Global Insights Basic Economics Database (GSI)

gsi:description

description of the series in GSI

group

group of the series

edited

logical, indicating if the data has been editted

Source

The fredmd_description data were obtained from Michael W. McCracken and Serena Ng (2015), FRED-MD Updated Appendix. https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.fred.stlouisfed.org/fred-md/Appendix_Tables_Update.pdf

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