Chow and Lin (1971) set out a procedure for the generation of higher frequency estimates for series for which data is available at a low frequency using data on a related series at the higher frequency. In this paper we set out a simple algorithm for the generation of quarterly estimates for a...

This article uses the Chow--Lin (1971) procedure to generate estimates of quarterly gross domestic product for the UK economy over the period January 1920 to April 1938. This series is then used to estimate a cointegrating relationship between employment, real wages and aggregate output.