R Dataset / Package Ecdat / Tobacco

On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the Tobacco data set which pertains to Households Tobacco Budget Share . The Tobacco data set is found in the Ecdat R package. You can load the Tobacco data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Tobacco"). This will load the data into a variable called Tobacco. If R says the Tobacco 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 Tobacco R data set. The size of this file is about 142,921 bytes.

Households Tobacco Budget Share

Description

a cross-section from 1995-96

number of observations : 2724

observation : individuals

country : Belgium

Usage

data(Tobacco)

Format

A dataframe containing :

occupation: a factor with levels (bluecol,whitecol,inactself), the last level being inactive and self-employed
region: a factor with levels (flanders,wallon,brussels)
nkids: number of kids of more than two years old
nkids2: number of kids of less than two years old
nadults: number of adults in household
lnx: log of total expenditures
stobacco: budgetshare of tobacco
salcohol: budgetshare of alcohol
age: age in brackets (0-4)

Source

National Institute of Statistics (NIS), Belgium.

References

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

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