B3 {klaR} | R Documentation

## West German Business Cycles 1955-1994

### Description

West German Business Cycles 1955-1994

### Usage

    data(B3)

### Format

A data frame with 157 observations on the following 14 variables.

PHASEN

  a factor with levels `1` (upswing), `2` (upper turning points), `3` (downswing), and `4` (lower turning points).

BSP91JW

  GNP (y)

CP91JW

  Private Consumption (y)

DEFRATE

  Government deficit (percent of GNP)

EWAJW

  Wage and salary earners (y)

EXIMRATE

  Net exports as (percent of GNP)

GM1JW

  Money supply M1 (y)

IAU91JW

  Investment in equipment (y)

IB91JW

  Investment in construction (y)

LSTKJW

  Unit labor cost (y)

PBSPJW

  GNP price deflator (y)

PCPJW

  Consumer price index (y)

ZINSK

  Short term interest rate (nominal)

ZINSLR

  Long term interest rate (real)

where (y) stands for “yearly growth rates”.

Note that years and corresponding year quarters are given in the row names of the data frame, e.g. “1988,3” for the third quarter in 1988.

### Details

The West German Business Cycles data (1955-1994) is analyzed by the project B3 of the SFB475 (Collaborative Research Centre “Reduction of Complexity for Multivariate Data Structures”), supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

### Source

RWI (Rheinisch Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung), Essen, Germany.

### References

Heilemann, U. and Münch, H.J. (1996): West German Business Cycles 1963-1994: A Multivariate Discriminant Analysis. CIRET–Conference in Singapore, CIRET–Studien 50.

### See Also

For benchmarking on this data see also `benchB3`

### Examples

    data(B3)
    summary(B3)

[Package klaR version 0.6-8 Index]