R Dataset / Package Ecdat / Gasoline

On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the Gasoline data set which pertains to Gasoline Consumption . The Gasoline data set is found in the Ecdat R package. You can load the Gasoline data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Gasoline"). This will load the data into a variable called Gasoline. If R says the Gasoline 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 Gasoline R data set. The size of this file is about 22,412 bytes.

Gasoline Consumption

Description

a panel of 18 observations from 1960 to 1978

number of observations : 342

observation : country

country : OECD

Usage

data(Gasoline)

Format

A dataframe containing :

country: a factor with 18 levels
year: the year
lgaspcar: logarithm of motor gasoline consumption per auto
lincomep: logarithm of real per-capita income
lrpmg: logarithm of real motor gasoline price
lcarpcap: logarithm of the stock of cars per capita

Source

Baltagi, B.H. and Y.J. Griggin (1983) “Gasoline demand in the OECD: an application of pooling and testing procedures”, European Economic Review, 22.

References

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

On Things