R Dataset / Package Ecdat / Fishing

On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the Fishing data set which pertains to Choice of Fishing Mode . The Fishing data set is found in the Ecdat R package. You can load the Fishing data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Fishing"). This will load the data into a variable called Fishing. If R says the Fishing 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 Fishing R data set. The size of this file is about 102,710 bytes.

Choice of Fishing Mode

Description

a cross-section

number of observations : 1182

observation : individuals

country : United States

Usage

data(Fishing)

Format

A dataframe containing :

mode: recreation mode choice, on of : beach, pier, boat and charter
price: price for chosen alternative
catch: catch rate for chosen alternative
pbeach: price for beach mode
ppier: price for pier mode
pboat: price for private boat mode
pcharter: price for charter boat mode
cbeach: catch rate for beach mode
cpier: catch rate for pier mode
cboat: catch rate for private boat mode
ccharter: catch rate for charter boat mode
income: monthly income

Source

Herriges, J. A. and C. L. Kling (1999) “Nonlinear Income Effects in Random Utility Models”, Review of Economics and Statistics, 81, 62-72.

References

Cameron, A.C. and P.K. Trivedi (2005) Microeconometrics : methods and applications, Cambridge, pp. 463–466, 486 and 491–495.

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