Description
Monthly housing starts, construction contracts and average new home
mortgage rates (Jan 1983 - Oct 1989).Format
Trivariate time series containing the following columns:
- 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.