R Dataset / Package Ecdat / BudgetItaly

On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the BudgetItaly data set which pertains to Budget Shares for Italian Households . The BudgetItaly data set is found in the Ecdat R package. You can load the BudgetItaly data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("BudgetItaly"). This will load the data into a variable called BudgetItaly. If R says the BudgetItaly data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("Ecdat") and then attempt to reload the data with the library() command. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the BudgetItaly R data set. The size of this file is about 125,887 bytes.

Budget Shares for Italian Households

Description

a cross-section from 1973 to 1992

number of observations : 1729

observation : households

country : Italy

Usage

data(BudgetItaly)

Format

A dataframe containing :

wfood: food share
whouse: housing and fuels share
wmisc: miscellaneous share
pfood: food price
phouse: housing and fuels price
pmisc: miscellaneous price
totexp: total expenditure
year: year
income: income
size: household size
pct: cellule weight

Source

Bollino, Carlo Andrea, Frederico Perali and Nicola Rossi (2000) “Linear household technologies”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 15(3), 253–274.

References

Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive : http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/jae/.

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