R Dataset / Package Ecdat / Housing

On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the Housing data set which pertains to Sales Prices of Houses in the City of Windsor . The Housing data set is found in the Ecdat R package. You can load the Housing data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Housing"). This will load the data into a variable called Housing. If R says the Housing 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 Housing R data set. The size of this file is about 28,038 bytes.

Sales Prices of Houses in the City of Windsor

Description

a cross-section from 1987

number of observations : 546

observation : goods

country : Canada

Usage

data(Housing)

Format

A dataframe containing :

price: sale price of a house
lotsize: the lot size of a property in square feet
bedrooms: number of bedrooms
bathrms: number of full bathrooms
stories: number of stories excluding basement
driveway: does the house has a driveway ?
recroom: does the house has a recreational room ?
fullbase: does the house has a full finished basement ?
gashw: does the house uses gas for hot water heating ?
airco: does the house has central air conditioning ?
garagepl: number of garage places
prefarea: is the house located in the preferred neighbourhood of the city ?

Source

Anglin, P.M. and R. Gencay (1996) “Semiparametric estimation of a hedonic price function”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 11(6), 633-648.

References

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

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

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