Wooldridge Source: Economic Report of the President, 2007, Tables B-4 and B-42. Data loads lazily.

data('okun')

Format

A data.frame with 47 observations on 4 variables:

  • year: 1959 through 2005

  • pcrgdp: percentage change in real GDP

  • unem: civilian unemployment rate

  • cunem: unem - unem[_n-1]

Used in Text

410, 444

Examples

 str(okun)
#> 'data.frame':	47 obs. of  4 variables:
#>  $ year  : int  1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 ...
#>  $ pcrgdp: num  7.1 2.5 2.3 6.1 4.4 ...
#>  $ unem  : num  5.5 5.5 6.7 5.5 5.7 ...
#>  $ cunem : num  NA 0 1.2 -1.2 0.2 ...
#>  - attr(*, "time.stamp")= chr "25 Jun 2011 23:03"