np (version 0.60-8)

Italy: Italian GDP Panel

Description

Italian GDP growth panel for 21 regions covering the period 1951-1998 (millions of Lire, 1990=base). There are 1008 observations in total.

Usage

data("Italy")

Format

A data frame with 2 columns, and 1008 rows.

year

the first column, of type ordered

gdp

the second column, of type numeric: millions of Lire, 1990=base

References

Baiocchi, G. (2006), “Economic Applications of Nonparametric Methods,” Ph.D. Thesis, University of York.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data("Italy")
attach(Italy)

plot(ordered(year), gdp, xlab="Year (ordered factor)",
     ylab="GDP (millions of Lire, 1990=base)")

detach(Italy)
# }