Kakadu: Willingness to Pay for the Preservation of the Kakadu...
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Description
Usage
Format
Source
References
See Also
Description
a cross-section
number of observations : 1827
observation : individuals
country : Australia
Usage
1
Format
A dataframe containing :
- lower
lowerbound of willingness to pay, 0 if observation is left censored
- upper
upper bound of willingness to pay, 999 if observation is right censored
- answer
an ordered factor with levels nn (respondent answers no, no), ny (respondent answers no, yes or yes, no), yy (respondent answers yes, yes)
- recparks
the greatest value of national parks and nature reserves is in recreation activities (from 1 to 5)
- jobs
jobs are the most important thing in deciding how to use our natural resources (from 1 to 5)
- lowrisk
development should be allowed to proceed where environmental damage from activities such as mining is possible but very unlikely (from 1 to 5)
- wildlife
it's important to have places where wildlife is preserved (from 1 to 5)
- future
it's important to consider future generations (from 1 to 5)
- aboriginal
in deciding how to use areas such as Kakadu national park, their importance to the local aboriginal people should be a major factor (from 1 to 5)
- finben
in deciding how to use our natural resources such as mineral deposits and forests, the most important thing is the financial benefits for Australia (from 1 to 5)
- mineparks
if areas within natural parks are set aside for development projects such as mining, the value of the parks is greatly reduced (from 1 to 5)
- moreparks
there should be more national parks created from state forests (from 1 to 5)
- gov
the government pays little attention to the people in making decisions (from 1 to 4)
- envcon
the respondent recycles things such as paper or glass and regularly buys unbleached toilet paper or environmentally friendly products ?
- vparks
the respondent has visited a national park or bushland recreation area in the previous 12 months ?
- tvenv
the respondent watches tv programs about the environment ? (from 1 to 9)
- conservation
the respondent is member of a conservation organization ?
- sex
male,female
- age
age
- schooling
years of schooling
- income
respondent's income in thousands of dollars
- major
the respondent received the major–impact scenario of the Kakadu conservation zone survey ?
Source
Werner, Megan (1999) “Allowing for zeros in dichotomous–choice contingent–valuation models”, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 17(4), october, 479–486.
References
Journal of Business Economics and Statistics web site : http://amstat.tandfonline.com/loi/ubes20.
See Also
Index.Source, Index.Economics, Index.Econometrics, Index.Observations
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Description Usage Format Source References See Also
Description
a cross-section
number of observations : 1827
observation : individuals
country : Australia
Usage
1 |
Format
A dataframe containing :
- lower
lowerbound of willingness to pay, 0 if observation is left censored
- upper
upper bound of willingness to pay, 999 if observation is right censored
- answer
an ordered factor with levels nn (respondent answers no, no), ny (respondent answers no, yes or yes, no), yy (respondent answers yes, yes)
- recparks
the greatest value of national parks and nature reserves is in recreation activities (from 1 to 5)
- jobs
jobs are the most important thing in deciding how to use our natural resources (from 1 to 5)
- lowrisk
development should be allowed to proceed where environmental damage from activities such as mining is possible but very unlikely (from 1 to 5)
- wildlife
it's important to have places where wildlife is preserved (from 1 to 5)
- future
it's important to consider future generations (from 1 to 5)
- aboriginal
in deciding how to use areas such as Kakadu national park, their importance to the local aboriginal people should be a major factor (from 1 to 5)
- finben
in deciding how to use our natural resources such as mineral deposits and forests, the most important thing is the financial benefits for Australia (from 1 to 5)
- mineparks
if areas within natural parks are set aside for development projects such as mining, the value of the parks is greatly reduced (from 1 to 5)
- moreparks
there should be more national parks created from state forests (from 1 to 5)
- gov
the government pays little attention to the people in making decisions (from 1 to 4)
- envcon
the respondent recycles things such as paper or glass and regularly buys unbleached toilet paper or environmentally friendly products ?
- vparks
the respondent has visited a national park or bushland recreation area in the previous 12 months ?
- tvenv
the respondent watches tv programs about the environment ? (from 1 to 9)
- conservation
the respondent is member of a conservation organization ?
- sex
male,female
- age
age
- schooling
years of schooling
- income
respondent's income in thousands of dollars
- major
the respondent received the major–impact scenario of the Kakadu conservation zone survey ?
Source
Werner, Megan (1999) “Allowing for zeros in dichotomous–choice contingent–valuation models”, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 17(4), october, 479–486.
References
Journal of Business Economics and Statistics web site : http://amstat.tandfonline.com/loi/ubes20.
See Also
Index.Source, Index.Economics, Index.Econometrics, Index.Observations
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