TobaccoR Documentation

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, http://www.econ.kuleuven.ac.be/GME, chapter 7.

See Also

Index.Source, Index.Economics, Index.Econometrics, Index.Observations