mr2015: Data from Munyo and Rossi (2015).

mr2015R Documentation

Data from Munyo and Rossi (2015).

Description

A dataset that includes the universe of criminal incidents reported at the Police Department of Montevideo: more than 690,000 felonies reported in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, between January 1st 2004 and March 15th 2011 (2631 days). This data is for academic use only.

Usage

mr2015

Format

A data frame with 2631 rows and 12 variables:

index

a time running variable and unique index entry

totalcrime

daily number of reported felonies

releases

daily releases from ComCar, the main prison in Montevideo

temperature

average temparature in Celsius

rainfall

rainfall in millimeters

holiday

indicator variable for Uruguay national holiday

sunshine

hours of sunshine

endofyear

an indicator for the last day of the year (New Years Eve)

dayofweek

the day of the week

year

the year

month

integer representation of the month

date

day of the month

Source

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2014.12.002


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