R Dataset / Package plm / Crime
On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the Crime data set which pertains to Crime in North Carolina. The Crime data set is found in the plm R package. You can load the Crime data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Crime"). This will load the data into a variable called Crime. If R says the Crime data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("plm") 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 Crime R data set. The size of this file is about 119,122 bytes.
Crime in North Carolina
Description
a panel of 90 observational units (counties) from 1981 to 1987
total number of observations : 630
observation : regional
country : United States
Usage
data(Crime)
Format
A data frame containing :
- county
-
county identifier
- year
-
year from 1981 to 1987
- crmrte
-
crimes committed per person
- prbarr
-
'probability' of arrest
- prbconv
-
'probability' of conviction
- prbpris
-
'probability' of prison sentence
- avgsen
-
average sentence, days
- polpc
-
police per capita
- density
-
people per square mile
- taxpc
-
tax revenue per capita
- region
-
factor. One of 'other', 'west' or 'central'.
- smsa
-
factor. Does the individual reside in a SMSA (standard metropolitan statistical area)?
- pctmin
-
percentage minority in 1980
- wcon
-
weekly wage in construction
- wtuc
-
weekly wage in trns, util, commun
- wtrd
-
weekly wage in whole sales and retail trade
- wfir
-
weekly wage in finance, insurance and real estate
- wser
-
weekly wage in service industry
- wmfg
-
weekly wage in manufacturing
- wfed
-
weekly wage of federal employees
- wsta
-
weekly wage of state employees
- wloc
-
weekly wage of local governments employees
- mix
-
offence mix: face-to-face/other
- pctymle
-
percentage of young males
Source
Online complements to Baltagi (2001):
http://www.wiley.com/legacy/wileychi/baltagi/
Online complements to Baltagi (2013):
http://bcs.wiley.com/he-bcs/Books?action=resource&bcsId=4338&itemId=1118672321&resourceId=13452
See also Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive entry for Baltagi (2006) at http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/jae/2006-v21.4/baltagi/.
References
Cornwell, C. and W.N. Trumbull (1994) “Estimating the economic model of crime with panel data”, Review of Economics and Statistics, 76(2), pp. 360–366.
Baltagi, B. H. (2006) “Estimating an economic model of crime using panel data from North Carolina”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 21(4), pp. 543–547.
Baltagi, Badi H. (2001) Econometric Analysis of Panel Data, 2nd ed., John Wiley and Sons.
Baltagi, Badi H. (2013) Econometric Analysis of Panel Data, 5th ed., John Wiley and Sons.
Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.
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