housing {fma}R Documentation

Housing data

Description

Monthly housing starts, construction contracts and average new home mortgage rates (Jan 1983 - Oct 1989).

Usage

housing

Format

Trivariate time series containing the following columns:

hstarts
Monthly housing starts (thousands of units)
construction
Construction contracts (millions of dollars)
interest
Average new home mortgage rates

Source

Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Chapter 8.

References

Survey of current business, US Department of Commerce, 1990.

Examples

plot(housing)

[Package fma version 1.23 Index]