Crime {plm}R Documentation

Crime in North Carolina

Description

a panel of 90 observations (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 sentenc
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 emplyees
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/, .

See also Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive entry for Baltagi (2006) at

http://www.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, 360–366.

Baltagi, B. H. (2006) “Estimating an economic model of crime using panel data from North Carolina”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 21(4), 543–547.

Baltagi, B. H. (2001) Econometric Analysis of Panel Data, John Wiley and Sons.


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