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(1)	GDP_DATA

	rgdp_1st: the first release, 
	
	rgdp_3rd: first revision which becomes avaialble two months after the first release 
	
	rgdp_comp:  the most recent estimate that has yet to undergo a comprehensive revision.(actual GDP in our paper)
	
(2)	EMP_DTA

	Emp1st:The first official jobs estimate for quarter t is available at the very beginning of quarter t + 1. 
	
	Emp2nd: First revision jobs data
	
	Empbench: Benchmaked jobs data (actual job data in our paper) Post-benchmark revisions (from reestimation
	of seasonal factors) are
	
(3)	DEMP_RT: Real-time Job growth data from Fed Philadelphia. Each column represents different vintage of data.  

	
(4) 	DRGDP_RT: Real-time GDP growth data from Fed Philadelphia. Each column represents different vintage of data. For example, ROUTPUT95Q2 refers to the GDP growth data that was available in 1995Q2. 
				Cell entries with 999 are for NA series

(5) 	DTA_1

	junkspd: Difference between the yields on Merrill Lynch high-yield corporate (cash pay) bonds and Moody’s seasoned AAA-rated corporate bonds
	
	term10_1:Quarterly average, constant-maturity 10-year and 1-year Treasury yields	
	
	SLOS:	Banks’ willingness to make consumer installment loans from the Federal Reserve’s Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey
	
	invert10_1:term spread takes the value 1 when the spread is negative and 0 otherwise
	
(6) 	GDP_SPF
	Data source: Fed Philadelphia
   GDP0_SPF: Current quarter SPF forecast of GDP growth
   GDP1_SPF: 1-quarter ahead SPF forecast of GDP growth
   GDP2_SPF: 2-quarter ahead SPF forecast of GDP growth
   GDP3_SPF: 3-quarter ahead SPF forecast of GDP growth
   GDP4_SPF: 4-quarter ahead SPF forecast of GDP growth

 (7) EMP_SPF
   Note that job growth forecasts are combination of Greenbook and SPF forecasts (See the paper for details)
   
   EMP0_SPF: Current quarter  forecast of job growth
   EMP1_SPF: 1- quarter ahead  forecast of job growth
   EMP2_SPF: 2-quarter ahead  forecast of job growth
   EMP3_SPF: 3-quarter ahead  forecast of job growth
   EMP4_SPF: 4-quarter ahead  forecast of job growth


(8) prg_1 is gauss program file for generating results in Table 1 and 2 in the paper.


(9) GDP_1 and EMP_1 are Eviews workfile for generating results in Table 3 in the paper.














 
	