AlcoholTobacco: Alcohol and Tobacco Expenditures in Belgian Households

Description Usage Format Source References Examples

Description

Data on budget shares of alcohol and tobacco for 2724 Belgian households, taken from the Belgian household budget survey of 1995/96.

Usage

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data("AlcoholTobacco", package = "htobit")

Format

A data frame containing 2724 observations on 9 variables.

alcohol

Budget share of alcohol.

tobacco

Budget share of tobacco.

expenditure

Total expenditure.

age

10-year age intervals ranging from 0 (younger than 30) to 4 (60 or older).

adults

Number of adults.

oldkids

Number of old kids (2 years or older).

youngkids

Number of young kinds (younger than 2 years).

occupation

Factor indicating occupation of household head ("blue" collar worker, "white" collar worker, or "other").

region

Factor indicating region of residence (Dutch-speaking "flanders", French-speaking "wallonie", or bilingual "brussels").

Source

Supplementary material for Verbeek (2004), originally provided by the National Institute of Statistics (NIS), Belgium.

References

Verbeek, M. (2004). A Guide to Modern Econometrics, 2nd ed. Chichester, UK: John Wiley.

Examples

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data("AlcoholTobacco", package = "htobit")

## homoscedastic tobit model for budget share of alcohol
ma <- htobit(alcohol ~ (age + adults) * log(expenditure) + oldkids + youngkids,
  data = AlcoholTobacco)
summary(ma)

## homoscedastic tobit model for budget share of tobacco
mt <- htobit(tobacco ~ (age + adults) * log(expenditure) + oldkids + youngkids,
  data = AlcoholTobacco)
summary(mt)

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