alcohol: alcohol

In wooldridge: 115 Data Sets from "Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach, 7e" by Jeffrey M. Wooldridge

Description

Wooldridge Source: Terza, J.V. (2002), “Alcohol Abuse and Employment: A Second Look,” Journal of Applied Econometrics 17, 393-404. I obtained these data from the Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive at http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/jae/. Data loads lazily.

Usage

data('alcohol')

Format

A data.frame with 9822 observations on 33 variables:

• abuse: =1 if abuse alcohol

• status: out of workforce = 1; unemployed = 2, employed = 3

• unemrate: state unemployment rate

• age: age in years

• educ: years of schooling

• married: =1 if married

• famsize: family size

• white: =1 if white

• exhealth: =1 if in excellent health

• vghealth: =1 if in very good health

• goodhealth: =1 if in good health

• fairhealth: =1 if in fair health

• northeast: =1 if live in northeast

• midwest: =1 if live in midwest

• south: =1 if live in south

• centcity: =1 if live in central city of MSA

• outercity: =1 if in outer city of MSA

• qrt1: =1 if interviewed in first quarter

• qrt2: =1 if interviewed in second quarter

• qrt3: =1 if interviewed in third quarter

• beertax: state excise tax, $ per gallon

• cigtax: state cigarette tax, cents per pack

• ethanol: state per-capita ethanol consumption

• mothalc: =1 if mother an alcoholic

• fathalc: =1 if father an alcoholic

• livealc: =1 if lived with alcoholic

• inwf: =1 if status > 1

• employ: =1 if employed

• agesq: age^2

• beertaxsq: beertax^2

• cigtaxsq: cigtax^2

• ethanolsq: ethanol^2

• educsq: educ^2

Used in Text

page 629

Source

https://www.cengage.com/cgi-wadsworth/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M20b&product_isbn_issn=9781111531041

Examples

 str(alcohol)

Example output

'data.frame':	9822 obs. of  33 variables:
 $ abuse     : int  1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
 $ status    : int  1 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 3 ...
 $ unemrate  : num  4 4 4 3.3 3.3 ...
 $ age       : int  50 37 53 59 43 38 34 45 47 31 ...
 $ educ      : int  4 12 9 11 10 10 10 2 5 12 ...
 $ married   : int  1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
 $ famsize   : int  1 5 3 1 1 1 4 2 2 1 ...
 $ white     : int  1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 ...
 $ exhealth  : int  0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 ...
 $ vghealth  : int  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
 $ goodhealth: int  0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 ...
 $ fairhealth: int  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
 $ northeast : int  0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 ...
 $ midwest   : int  1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 ...
 $ south     : int  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
 $ centcity  : int  0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 ...
 $ outercity : int  0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 ...
 $ qrt1      : int  1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
 $ qrt2      : int  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
 $ qrt3      : int  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
 $ beertax   : num  0.334 0.334 0.334 0.24 0.24 ...
 $ cigtax    : num  38 38 38 26 26 26 20 20 20 20 ...
 $ ethanol   : num  2.04 2.04 2.04 2.45 2.45 ...
 $ mothalc   : int  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
 $ fathalc   : int  0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 ...
 $ livealc   : int  0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 ...
 $ inwf      : int  0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 ...
 $ employ    : int  0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 ...
 $ agesq     : int  2500 1369 2809 3481 1849 1444 1156 2025 2209 961 ...
 $ beertaxsq : num  0.1116 0.1116 0.1116 0.0576 0.0576 ...
 $ cigtaxsq  : num  1444 1444 1444 676 676 ...
 $ ethanolsq : num  4.16 4.16 4.16 6 6 ...
 $ educsq    : int  16 144 81 121 100 100 100 4 25 144 ...
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 - attr(*, "version")= int 12

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