On this Picostat.com statistics page, you will find information about the Fatality data set which pertains to Drunk Driving Laws and Traffic Deaths . The Fatality data set is found in the Ecdat R package. You can load the Fatality data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Fatality"). This will load the data into a variable called Fatality. If R says the Fatality data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("Ecdat") and then attempt to reload the data. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the Fatality R data set. The size of this file is about 33,945 bytes.

Drunk Driving Laws and Traffic Deaths

Description

a panel of 48 observations from 1982 to 1988

number of observations : 336

observation : regional

country : United States

Usage

data(Fatality)

Format

A dataframe containing :

state

state ID code

year

year

mrall

traffic fatality rate (deaths per 10000)

beertax

tax on case of beer

mlda

minimum legal drinking age

jaild

mandatory jail sentence ?

comserd

mandatory community service ?

vmiles

average miles per driver

unrate

unemployment rate

perinc

per capita personal income

Source

Pr. Christopher J. Ruhm, Department of Economics, University of North Carolina.

References

Stock, James H. and Mark W. Watson (2003) Introduction to Econometrics, Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers, chapter 8.

See Also

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

Index.Time.Series

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Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.