Estimating the underlying change in unemployment in the UK

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 163, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 303-309

  Harvey, Andrew ^b   Chung, Chia Hui ^a  

^a Jardine Fleming Asset Management ^*  (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Co integration; Common trends; Kalman filter; Mixed frequency data; Rotating sample; Survey data

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034354214     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-985x.00171     Document Type: Article

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