countycrime: County crime data

In gragusa/ase: Collection of useful functions for "Applied Statistics and Econometrics"

Description

Panel data on county level crime data.

Usage

data("countycrime")

Format

A data frame containing 630 observation on 26 variables.

Details

• 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

Source

From C. Cornwell and W. Trumball (1994), <e2><80><9c>Estimating the Economic Model of Crime with Panel Data,<e2><80><9d> Review of Economics and Statistics 76, 360-366.

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