riceProdPhil {frontier}R Documentation

Rice Production in the Philippines

Description

The riceProdPhil data frame contains annual data collected from 43 smallholder rice producers in the Tarlac region of the Philippines between 1990 and 1997.

Usage

data( riceProdPhil )

Format

This data frame contains the following vaiables (columns):

YEARDUM
Time period (1= 1990, ..., 8 = 1997).
FMERCODE
Farmer code (1, ..., 43).
PROD
Output (tonnes of freshly threshed rice).
AREA
Area planted (hectares).
LABOR
Labour used (man-days of family and hired labour).
NPK
Fertiliser used (kg of active ingredients).
OTHER
Other inputs used (Laspeyres index = 100 for Firm 17 in 1991).
PRICE
Output price (pesos per kg).
AREAP
Rental price of land (pesos per hectare).
LABORP
Labour price (pesos per hired man-day.
NPKP
Fertiliser price (pesos per kg of active ingredient).
OTHERP
Price of other inputs (implicit price index).
AGE
Age of the household head (years).
EDYRS
Education of the household head (years).
HHSIZE
Household size.
NADULT
Number of adults in the household.
BANRAT
Percentage of area classified as bantog (upland) fields.

Details

This data set is published as supplement to Coelli et al. (2005). While most variables of this data set were supplied by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), some were calculated by Coelli et al. (2005, see p. 325–326). The survey is described in Pandey et al. (1999).

Source

Supplementary files for Coelli et al. (2005), http://www.uq.edu.au/economics/cepa/software/CROB2005.zip

References

Coelli, T. J., Rao, D. S. P., O'Donnell, C. J., and Battese, G. E. (2005) An Introduction to Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, Springer, New York.

Pandey, S., Masciat, P., Velasco, L, and Villano, R. (1999) Risk analysis of a rainfed rice production system system in Tarlac, Central Luzon, Philippines, Experimental Agriculture, 35, 225-237.


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