crime: Crime Data

In ccolonescu/PoEdata: PoE data for R

Description

obs: 630 [7 year on 90 counties]

Usage

data("crime")

Format

A data frame with 630 observations on the following 59 variables.

county

county identifier

year

81 to 87

crmrte

crimes committed per person

prbarr

'probability' of arrest

prbconv

'probability' of conviction

prbpris

'probability' of prison sentenc

avgsen

avg. sentence, days

polpc

police per capita

density

people per sq. mile

taxpc

tax revenue per capita

west

=1 if in western N.C.

central

=1 if in central N.C.

urban

=1 if in SMSA

pctmin80

perc. minority, 1980

wcon

weekly wage, construction

wtuc

wkly wge, trns, util, commun

wtrd

wkly wge, whlesle, retail trade

wfir

wkly wge, fin, ins, real est

wser

wkly wge, service industry

wmfg

wkly wge, manufacturing

wfed

wkly wge, fed employees

wsta

wkly wge, state employees

wloc

wkly wge, local gov emps

mix

offense mix: face-to-face/other

pctymle

percent young male

d82

=1 if year == 82

d83

=1 if year == 83

d84

=1 if year == 84

d85

=1 if year == 85

d86

=1 if year == 86

d87

=1 if year == 87

lcrmrte

log(crmrte)

lprbarr

log(prbarr)

lprbconv

log(prbconv)

lprbpris

log(prbpris)

lavgsen

log(avgsen)

lpolpc

log(polpc)

ldensity

log(density)

ltaxpc

log(taxpc)

lwcon

log(wcon)

lwtuc

log(wtuc)

lwtrd

log(wtrd)

lwfir

log(wfir)

lwser

log(wser)

lwmfg

log(wmfg)

lwfed

log(wfed)

lwsta

log(wsta)

lwloc

log(wloc)

lmix

log(mix)

lpctymle

log(pctymle)

lpctmin

log(pctmin)

clcrmrte

lcrmrte - lcrmrte[t-1]

clprbarr

lprbarr - lprbarr[t-1]

clprbcon

lprbconv - lprbconv[t-1]

clprbpri

lprbpri - lprbpri[t-1]

clavgsen

lavgsen - lavgsen[t-1]

clpolpc

lpolpc - lpolpc[t-1]

cltaxpc

ltaxpc - ltaxpc[t-1]

clmix

lmix - lmix[t-1]

Source

http://principlesofeconometrics.com/poe4/poe4.htm

References

These data were provided by Chris Cornwell. The data are from the paper Cornwell, C. and W. N. Trumbull, "Estimating the economic model of crime with panel data", Review of Economics and Statistics 76, 1994, 360-366.

Examples

data(crime)
## maybe str(crime) ; plot(crime) ...

ccolonescu/PoEdata documentation built on May 13, 2019, 2:17 p.m.