R Dataset / Package Ecdat / Strike

On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the Strike data set which pertains to Strike Duration Data . The Strike data set is found in the Ecdat R package. You can load the Strike data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Strike"). This will load the data into a variable called Strike. If R says the Strike data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("Ecdat") and then attempt to reload the data with the library() command. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the Strike R data set. The size of this file is about 683 bytes.

Strike Duration Data

Description

a cross-section from 1968 to 1976

number of observations : 62

country : United States

Usage

data(Strike)

Format

A dataframe containing :

duration: strike duration in days
prod: unanticipated output

Source

Kennan, J. (1985) “The duration of contract strikes in U.S. manufacturing”, Journal of Econometrics, 28, 5-28.

References

Greene, W.H. (2003) Econometric Analysis, Prentice Hall, http://www.prenhall.com/greene/greene1.html, Table F22.1.

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