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Ecdat (version 0.2-9)

BudgetFood: Budget Share of Food for Spanish Households

Description

a cross-section from 1980

number of observations : 23972

observation : households

country : Spain

Usage

data(BudgetFood)

Arguments

Format

A dataframe containing :
wfood
percentage of total expenditure which the household has spent on food
totexp
total expenditure of the household
age
age of reference person in the household
size
size of the household
town
size of the town where the household is placed categorised into 5 groups: 1 for small towns, 5 for big ones
sex
sex of reference person (man,woman)

Source

Delgado, A. and Juan Mora (1998) “Testing non--nested semiparametric models : an application to Engel curves specification”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 13(2), 145--162.

References

Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive : http://jae.wiley.com/jae/.

See Also

Index.Source, Index.Economics, Index.Econometrics, Index.Observations