R Dataset / Package Ecdat / BudgetUK

On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the BudgetUK data set which pertains to Budget Shares of British Households . The BudgetUK data set is found in the Ecdat R package. You can load the BudgetUK data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("BudgetUK"). This will load the data into a variable called BudgetUK. If R says the BudgetUK 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 BudgetUK R data set. The size of this file is about 79,568 bytes.

Budget Shares of British Households

Description

a cross-section from 1980 to 1982

number of observations : 1519

observation : households

country : United Kingdown

Usage

data(BudgetUK)

Format

A dataframe containing :

wfood: budget share for food expenditure
wfuel: budget share for fuel expenditure
wcloth: budget share for clothing expenditure
walc: budget share for alcohol expenditure
wtrans: budget share for transport expenditure
wother: budget share for other good expenditure
totexp: total household expenditure (rounded to the nearest 10 UK pounds sterling)
income: total net household income (rounded to the nearest 10 UK pounds sterling)
age: age of household head
children: number of children

Source

Blundell, Richard, Alan Duncan and Krishna Pendakur (1998) “Semiparametric estimation and consumer demand”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 13(5), 435–462.

References

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

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