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Stated Preferences for Car Choice
Description
a cross-section
number of observations : 4654
observation : individuals
country : United States
Usage
data(Car)Format
A dataframe containing :
- choice
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choice of a vehicle among 6 propositions
- college
college education ?
- hsg2
size of household greater than 2 ?
- coml5
commute lower than 5 miles a day ?
- typez
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body type, one of
regcar(regular car),sportuv(sport utility vehicle),sportcar,stwagon(station wagon),truck,van, for each proposition z from 1 to 6 - fuelz
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fuel for proposition z, one of
gasoline,methanol,cng(compressed natural gas),electric. - pricez
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price of vehicle divided by the logarithm of income
- rangez
-
hundreds of miles vehicle can travel between refuelings/rechargings
- accz
-
acceleration, tens of seconds required to reach 30 mph from stop
- speedz
highest attainable speed in hundreds of mph
- pollutionz
tailpipe emissions as fraction of those for new gas vehicle
- sizez
0 for a mini, 1 for a subcompact, 2 for a compact and 3 for a mid–size or large vehicle
- spacez
fraction of luggage space in comparable new gas vehicle
- costz
cost per mile of travel (tens of cents) : home recharging for electric vehicle, station refueling otherwise
- stationz
fraction of stations that can refuel/recharge vehicle
Source
McFadden, Daniel and Kenneth Train (2000) “Mixed MNL models for discrete response”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 15(5), 447–470.
References
Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive : http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/jae/.
See Also
Index.Source, Index.Economics, Index.Econometrics, Index.Observations