AlcoholTobacco {htobit}R Documentation

Alcohol and Tobacco Expenditures in Belgian Households

Description

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

Usage

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

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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