Kakadu: Willingness to Pay for the Preservation of the Kakadu National Park
Description
a cross-section number of observations : 1827
observation : individuals
country : Australia
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 ressources (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 ressources 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 watchs 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.