R/cooperatives.R

In jcvdav/cooperatR: Manipulate and wuery Dan Ovando's cooperative database

#' Characteristics of 67 fishing cooperatives around the world
#' 
#' @name cooperatives
#'
#' @description This document provides definitions for variables
#' collected in the database of cooperative fisheries. Data are
#' provided in broad categories of
#' 
#' 
#' \itemize{
#'   \item General information
#'   \item Ecosystem characteristics
#'   \item Host country
#'   \item Catch share management
#'   \item Non-catch share management
#'   \item Whole fleet data
#'   \item Fishery specific data
#'   \item Cooperative behaviors
#'   \item Cooperative characteristics
#'   \item Exclusivity
#'   \item Role of government
#' }
#' 
#' Variables fall into 2 general classes:
#' 
#' \itemize{
#'   \item binary data (1 or 0)
#'   \item descriptive entry (e.g. 10,000 tones, coral reef)
#' }
#' 
#' All variable names are written in snake case. For example,
#' a variable for consistent spawining location of a species
#' is included as \code{consistent_spawning_location}.
#' 
#' A full list of variables present in the dataset can be seen
#' by using the \code{\link{get_variables}} function.
#' 
#' For a full documentation of the original dataset, look at the supplementary
#' information of the paper in: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2012.03.012.
#' 
#' For a record of changes made to the database visit http://www.jcvdav.github.io/cooperatR/DBcleaning.nb.html
#'
#' @docType data
#' @keywords datasets
#' @usage data(cooperatives)
#' @format A data frame with 103 rows and 133 variables
#' @seealso \code{\link{get_variables}}
#' @references Daniel A. Ovando, Robert T. Deacon, Sarah E. Lester, Christopher Costello, Tonya Van Leuvan, Karlynn McIlwain, C. Kent Strauss, Michael Arbuckle, Rod Fujita, Stefan Gelcich, Hirotsugu Uchida, Conservation incentives and collective choices in cooperative fisheries, Marine Policy, Volume 37, January 2013, Pages 132-140, ISSN 0308-597X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2012.03.012.
#' 
#' @author Juan Carlos
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