Data on U.S. recessions, past to present. Data include information on contraction, expansion, and cycle.
Format
A data frame with 35 observations on the following 8 variables.
peakthe year-month of the peak, as a date
troughthe year-month of the trough, as a date
peakqthe peak quarter
troughqthe trough quarter
p2tpeak to trough (in months)
prev_t2pprevious trough to this peak (in months)
tfpttrough from previous trough (in months)
pfpppeak from previous peak (in months)
Details
Data come from via scraping job of https://www.nber.org/research/data/us-business-cycle-expansions-and-contractions