SW2002: US macroeconomic data set from Stock and Watson (2002)

Description Usage Format Source References

Description

A dataset containing 215 monthly US macroeconomic variables spanning the period 1959-1998. The dataset is from Stock and Watson (2002).

Usage

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Format

A list with the following:

rawdata:

The raw dataset as a matrix where the columns are the variables as time series objects.

tcodes:

The transformation codes used to transform the variables to be stationary.

unbal:

Boolean vector indicating whether a given variable contains missing values.

desc:

A matrix containing descriptions of the variables.

Source

http://www.princeton.edu/~mwatson/ddisk/wc00.zip.

References

Stock, J., Watson, M. (2002). Macroeconomic forecasting using diffusion indexes. Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 20(2), 147–162. http://dx.doi.org/10.1198/073500102317351921


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