R: Crime in North Carolina

Crime {Ecdat}

R Documentation

Crime in North Carolina

Description

a panel of 90 observations from 1981 to 1987

number of observations : 630

observation : regional

country : United States

Usage

data(Crime)

Format

A dataframe containing :

county: county identifier
year: year from 1981 to 1987
crmrte: crimes committed per person
prbarr: 'probability' of arrest
prbconv: 'probability' of conviction
prbpris: 'probability' of prison sentence
avgsen: average sentence, days
polpc: police per capita
density: hundreds of people per square mile
taxpc: tax revenue per capita
region: one of 'other', 'west' or 'central'
smsa: 'yes' or 'no' if in SMSA
pctmin: percentage minority in 1980
wcon: weekly wage in construction
wtuc: weekly wage in trns, util, commun
wtrd: weekly wage in whole sales and retail trade
wfir: weekly wage in finance, insurance and real estate
wser: weekly wage in service industry
wmfg: weekly wage in manufacturing
wfed: weekly wage of federal employees
wsta: weekly wage of state employees
wloc: weekly wage of local governments employees
mix: offense mix: face-to-face/other
pctymle: percentage of young males

Note

Thanks to Yungfong "Frank" Tang for identifying an error in the description of "density", previously documented erroneously as only "people per square mile".

Source

Cornwell, C. and W.N. Trumbull (1994) “Estimating the economic model of crime with panel data”, Review of Economics and Statistics, 76, 360–366.

Baltagi, B. H. (2006) “Estimating an economic model of crime using panel data from North Carolina”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 21(4), May/June 2006, pp. 543-547.

See also: CRIME4.DES and Baltagi in JAE Data Archive.

References

Baltagi, Badi H. (2003) Econometric analysis of panel data, John Wiley and sons, https://www.wiley.com/legacy/wileychi/baltagi/.