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Vintages Data

Source: R/data-vintages.R
gdp.Rd

A collection of real-time datasets.

Usage

gdp

Format

A tibble with quarterly observations and 4 variables:

time

Date of the observation

pub_date

Publication date of the vintage

value

Numeric, real GDP (seasonally adjusted)

id

Country code

Details

  • GDP: Quarterly Vintages (Billions of real dollars, seasonally adjusted)

  • Timeframe: Q1 1980 - Q4 2024

  • Real-Time Vintages: Q4 2002 - Q4 2024

Sources

  • All the data is from the realtime database of Indergand and Leist (2014). Countries:

  • CHE:

    • Switzerland

    • Source: SECO

  • US:

    • United States

    • Sources: FRED, OECD

  • EA:

    • Euro Area

    • Sources: Eurostat, OECD

  • JP:

    • Japan

    • Sources: Cabinet Office (Japan), OECD

References

Indergand, R., Leist, S. A Real-Time Data Set for Switzerland. Swiss J Economics Statistics 150, 331–352 (2014). doi:10.1007/BF03399410

Examples

# Load gdp dataset
data(gdp)
head(gdp)
#> # A tibble: 6 × 4
#>   time       pub_date    value id   
#>   <date>     <date>      <dbl> <chr>
#> 1 1980-01-01 2002-10-01 64551. CHE  
#> 2 1980-01-01 2003-01-01 64551. CHE  
#> 3 1980-01-01 2003-04-01 64556. CHE  
#> 4 1980-01-01 2003-07-01 64551. CHE  
#> 5 1980-01-01 2003-10-01 64551. CHE  
#> 6 1980-01-01 2004-04-01 75004. CHE