On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the Cigar data set which pertains to Cigarette Consumption . The Cigar data set is found in the plm R package. You can load the Cigar data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Cigar"). This will load the data into a variable called Cigar. If R says the Cigar data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("plm") 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 Cigar R data set. The size of this file is about 68,863 bytes.

Cigarette Consumption

Description

a panel of 46 observations from 1963 to 1992

total number of observations : 1380

observation : regional

country : United States

Usage

data(Cigar)

Format

A data frame containing :

state

state abbreviation

year

the year

price

price per pack of cigarettes

pop

population

pop16

population above the age of 16

cpi

consumer price index (1983=100)

ndi

per capita disposable income

sales

cigarette sales in packs per capita

pimin

minimum price in adjoining states per pack of cigarettes

Source

Online complements to Baltagi (2001):

http://www.wiley.com/legacy/wileychi/baltagi/

Online complements to Baltagi (2013):

http://bcs.wiley.com/he-bcs/Books?action=resource&bcsId=4338&itemId=1118672321&resourceId=13452

References

Baltagi, Badi H. (2001) Econometric Analysis of Panel Data, 2nd ed., John Wiley and Sons.

Baltagi, Badi H. (2013) Econometric Analysis of Panel Data, 5th ed., John Wiley and Sons.

Baltagi, B.H. and D. Levin (1992) “Cigarette taxation: raising revenues and reducing consumption”, Structural Changes and Economic Dynamics, 3(2), pp. 321–335.

Baltagi, B.H., J.M. Griffin and W. Xiong (2000) “To pool or not to pool: homogeneous versus heterogeneous estimators applied to cigarette demand”, Review of Economics and Statistics, 82(1), pp. 117–126.

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