R Dataset / Package Ecdat / Clothing

On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the Clothing data set which pertains to Sales Data of Men's Fashion Stores . The Clothing data set is found in the Ecdat R package. You can load the Clothing data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Clothing"). This will load the data into a variable called Clothing. If R says the Clothing 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 Clothing R data set. The size of this file is about 1,407 bytes.

Sales Data of Men's Fashion Stores

Description

a cross-section from 1990

number of observations : 400

observation : production units

country : Netherland

Usage

data(Clothing)

Format

A dataframe containing :

tsales: annual sales in Dutch guilders
sales: sales per square meter
margin: gross-profit-margin
nown: number of owners (managers)
nfull: number of full-timers
npart: number of part-timers
naux: number of helpers (temporary workers)
hoursw: total number of hours worked
hourspw: number of hours worked per worker
inv1: investment in shop-premises
inv2: investment in automation.
ssize: sales floorspace of the store (in m$^2$).
start: year start of business

References

Verbeek, Marno (2004) A Guide to Modern Econometrics, John Wiley and Sons, chapter 3.

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