recessions_monthly: Dates of recessions in USA, according to NBER (monthly)

Description Usage Format Source

Description

Dates of recessions in USA, according to NBER (monthly)

Usage

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Format

This data _is not_ "human friendly", it is a time in the format YYYY.Frac, which Frac is a fraction of the year. This is what you get if you take an ts objectx and use time(x).This is use by the base plot function. Each dataset contains two columns:

start_date

The month of the beginning of a recession

end_date

The month of the end of a recession

Source

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/USREC


danmrc/recessionR documentation built on May 12, 2019, 5:16 p.m.