Number of Strikes in Us Manufacturing

Description

monthly observations from 1968(1) to 1976 (12)

number of observations : 108

observation : country

country : United States

Usage

data(StrikeNb)

Format

A time series containing :

strikes

number of strikes (number of contract strikes in U.S. manufacturing beginning each month)

output

level of economic activity (measured as cyclical departure of aggregate production from its trend level)

time

a time trend from 1 to 108

Source

Kennan, J. (1985) “The Duration of Contract strikes in U.S. Manufacturing”, Journal of Econometrics, 28, 5-28.

Cameron, A.C. and Trivedi P.K. (1990) “Regression Based Tests for Overdispersion in the Poisson Model”, Journal of Econometrics, December, 347-364.

References

Cameron, A.C. and Trivedi P.K. (1998) Regression analysis of count data, Cambridge University Press, http://cameron.econ.ucdavis.edu/racd/racddata.html, chapter 7.

See Also

Index.Source, Index.Economics, Index.Econometrics, Index.Observations,

Index.Time.Series