R: Budget Shares of British Households

BudgetUK {Ecdat}

R Documentation

Budget Shares of British Households

Description

a cross-section from 1980 to 1982

number of observations : 1519

observation : households

country : United Kingdom

Usage

data(BudgetUK)

Format

A dataframe containing :

wfood: budget share for food expenditure
wfuel: budget share for fuel expenditure
wcloth: budget share for clothing expenditure
walc: budget share for alcohol expenditure
wtrans: budget share for transport expenditure
wother: budget share for other good expenditure
totexp: total household expenditure (rounded to the nearest 10 UK pounds sterling)
income: total net household income (rounded to the nearest 10 UK pounds sterling)
age: age of household head
children: number of children

Source

Blundell, Richard, Alan Duncan and Krishna Pendakur (1998) “Semiparametric estimation and consumer demand”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 13(5), 435–462.

References