R Dataset / Package Ecdat / NaturalPark

On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the NaturalPark data set which pertains to Willingness to Pay for the Preservation of the Alentejo Natural Park . The NaturalPark data set is found in the Ecdat R package. You can load the NaturalPark data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("NaturalPark"). This will load the data into a variable called NaturalPark. If R says the NaturalPark 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 NaturalPark R data set. The size of this file is about 8,048 bytes.

Willingness to Pay for the Preservation of the Alentejo Natural Park

Description

a cross-section from 1987

number of observations : 312

observation : individuals

country : Portugal

Usage

data(NaturalPark)

Format

A dataframe containing :

bid1: initial bid, in euro
bidh: higher bid
bidl: lower bid
answers: a factor with levels (nn,ny,yn,yy)
age: age in 6 classes
sex: a factor with levels (male,female)
income: income in 8 classes

Source

Nunes, Paulo (2000) Contingent Valuation of the Benefits of natural areas and its warmglow component, PhD thesis 133, FETEW, KULeuven.

References

Verbeek, Marno (2004) A Guide to Modern Econometrics, John Wiley and Sons, chapter 7.

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