R Dataset / Package Ecdat / Cigarette

On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the Cigarette data set which pertains to The Cigarette Consumption Panel Data Set . The Cigarette data set is found in the Ecdat R package. You can load the Cigarette data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Cigarette"). This will load the data into a variable called Cigarette. If R says the Cigarette 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 Cigarette R data set. The size of this file is about 51,522 bytes.

The Cigarette Consumption Panel Data Set

Description

a panel of 48 observations from 1985 to 1995

number of observations : 528

observation : regional

country : United States

Usage

data(Cigarette)

Format

A dataframe containing :

state: state
year: year
cpi: consumer price index
pop: state population
packpc: number of packs per capita
income: state personal income (total, nominal)
tax: average state, federal, and average local excise taxes for fiscal year
avgprs: average price during fiscal year, including sales taxes
taxs: average excise taxes for fiscal year, including sales taxes

Source

Professor Jonathan Gruber, MIT.

References

Stock, James H. and Mark W. Watson (2003) Introduction to Econometrics, Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers, chapter 10.

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