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Number of Strikes in Us Manufacturing
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Description
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monthly observations from 1968(1) to 1976 (12)

*number of observations* : 108

*observation* : country

*country* : United States

Usage
~~~~~

::

    data(StrikeNb)

Format
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A time serie 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 <http://cameron.econ.ucdavis.edu/racd/racddata.html>`_,
chapter 7.

See Also
~~~~~~~~

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

``Index.Time.Series``
