R Dataset / Package Ecdat / Crime

On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the Crime data set which pertains to Crime in North Carolina . The Crime data set is found in the Ecdat R package. You can load the Crime data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Crime"). This will load the data into a variable called Crime. If R says the Crime 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 Crime R data set. The size of this file is about 119,122 bytes.

Crime in North Carolina

Description

a panel of 90 observations from 1981 to 1987

number of observations : 630

observation : regional

country : United States

Usage

data(Crime)

Format

A dataframe containing :

county: county identifier
year: year from 1981 to 1987
crmrte: crimes committed per person
prbarr: 'probability' of arrest
prbconv: 'probability' of conviction
prbpris: 'probability' of prison sentence
avgsen: average sentence, days
polpc: police per capita
density: people per square mile
taxpc: tax revenue per capita
region: one of 'other', 'west' or 'central'
smsa: 'yes' or 'no' if in SMSA
pctmin: percentage minority in 1980
wcon: weekly wage in construction
wtuc: weekly wage in trns, util, commun
wtrd: weekly wage in whole sales and retail trade
wfir: weekly wage in finance, insurance and real estate
wser: weekly wage in service industry
wmfg: weekly wage in manufacturing
wfed: weekly wage of federal employees
wsta: weekly wage of state employees
wloc: weekly wage of local governments employees
mix: offence mix: face-to-face/other
pctymle: percentage of young males

Source

Cornwell, C. and W.N. Trumbull (1994) “Estimating the economic model of crime with panel data”, Review of Economics and Statistics, 76, 360–366.

Baltagi, B. H. (forthcoming) “Estimating an economic model of crime using panel data from North Carolina”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, .

References

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

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

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