R Dataset / Package Ecdat / MunExp

On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the MunExp data set which pertains to Municipal Expenditure Data . The MunExp data set is found in the Ecdat R package. You can load the MunExp data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("MunExp"). This will load the data into a variable called MunExp. If R says the MunExp 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 MunExp R data set. The size of this file is about 93,976 bytes.

Municipal Expenditure Data

Description

a panel of 265 observations from 1979 to 1987

number of observations : 2385

observation : regional

country : Sweden

Usage

data(MunExp)

Format

A dataframe containing :

id: identification
year: date
expend: expenditure
revenue: revenue from taxes and fees
grants: grants from Central Government

Source

Dahlberg, M. and E. Johansson (2000) “An examination of the dynamic behavior of local government using GMM boot-strapping methods”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 21, 333-355.

References

Greene, W.H. (2003) Econometric Analysis, Prentice Hall, http://www.prenhall.com/greene/greene1.html, Table F18.1.

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

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