economicsR Documentation

US economic time series

Description

This dataset was produced from US economic time series data available from https://fred.stlouisfed.org/. economics is in "wide" format, economics_long is in "long" format.

Usage

economics

economics_long

Format

A data frame with 574 rows and 6 variables:

date

Month of data collection

pce

personal consumption expenditures, in billions of dollars, https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PCE

pop

total population, in thousands, https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/POP

psavert

personal savings rate, https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PSAVERT/

uempmed

median duration of unemployment, in weeks, https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UEMPMED

unemploy

number of unemployed in thousands, https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNEMPLOY

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 2870 rows and 4 columns.