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#! /usr/bin/env python
"""U.S. Strike Duration Data"""
__all__ = ['COPYRIGHT','TITLE','SOURCE','DESCRSHORT','DESCRLONG','NOTE', 'load']
__docformat__ = 'restructuredtext'
COPYRIGHT = """This is public domain."""
TITLE = __doc__
SOURCE = """
This is a subset of the data used in Kennan (1985). It was originally
published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
::
Kennan, J. 1985. "The duration of contract strikes in US manufacturing.
`Journal of Econometrics` 28.1, 5-28.
"""
DESCRSHORT = """Contains data on the length of strikes in US manufacturing and
unanticipated industrial production."""
DESCRLONG = """Contains data on the length of strikes in US manufacturing and
unanticipated industrial production. The data is a subset of the data originally
used by Kennan. The data here is data for the months of June only to avoid
seasonal issues."""
#suggested notes
NOTE = """
Number of observations - 62
Number of variables - 2
Variable name definitions::
duration - duration of the strike in days
iprod - unanticipated industrial production
"""
from numpy import recfromtxt, column_stack, array
from scikits.statsmodels.datasets import Dataset
from os.path import dirname, abspath
def load():
"""
Load the strikes data and return a Dataset class instance.
Returns
-------
Dataset instance:
See DATASET_PROPOSAL.txt for more information.
"""
filepath = dirname(abspath(__file__))
##### EDIT THE FOLLOWING TO POINT TO DatasetName.csv #####
data = recfromtxt(open(filepath + '/strikes.csv', 'rb'), delimiter=",",
names=True, dtype=float)
names = list(data.dtype.names)
##### SET THE INDEX #####
endog = array(data[names[0]], dtype=float)
endog_name = names[0]
##### SET THE INDEX #####
exog = column_stack(data[i] for i in names[1:]).astype(float)
exog_name = names[1:]
dataset = Dataset(data=data, names=names, endog=endog, exog=exog,
endog_name = endog_name, exog_name=exog_name)
return dataset