R Dataset / Package Ecdat / Cigar

On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the Cigar data set which pertains to Cigarette Consumption . The Cigar data set is found in the Ecdat R package. You can load the Cigar data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Cigar"). This will load the data into a variable called Cigar. If R says the Cigar 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 Cigar R data set. The size of this file is about 68,863 bytes.

Cigarette Consumption

Description

a panel of 46 observations from 1963 to 1992

number of observations : 1380

observation : regional

country : United States

Usage

data(Cigar)

Format

A dataframe containing :

state: state abbreviation
year: the year
price: price per pack of cigarettes
pop: population
pop16: population above the age of 16
cpi: consumer price index (1983=100)
ndi: per capita disposable income
sales: cigarette sales in packs per capita
pimin: minimum price in adjoining states per pack of cigarettes

Source

Baltagi, B.H. and D. Levin (1992) “Cigarette taxation: raising revenues and reducing consumption”, Structural Changes and Economic Dynamics, 3, 321–335.

Baltagi, B.H., J.M. Griffin and W. Xiong (2000) “To pool or not to pool: homogeneous versus heterogeneous estimators applied to cigarette demand”, Review of Economics and Statistics, 82, 117–126.

References

Baltagi, Badi H. (2003) Econometric analysis of panel data, John Wiley and sons, http://www.wiley.com/legacy/wileychi/baltagi/.

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