Kakadu {Ecdat}R Documentation

Willingness to Pay for the Preservation of the Kakadu National Park

Description

a cross-section

number of observations : 1827

observation : individuals

country : Australia

Usage

data(Kakadu)

Format

A dataframe containing :

lower

lower bound of willingness to pay, 0 if observation is left censored

upper

upper bound of willingness to pay, 999 if observation is right censored

answer

an ordered factor with levels nn (respondent answers no, no), ny (respondent answers no, yes or yes, no), yy (respondent answers yes, yes)

recparks

the greatest value of national parks and nature reserves is in recreation activities (from 1 to 5)

jobs

jobs are the most important thing in deciding how to use our natural resources (from 1 to 5)

lowrisk

development should be allowed to proceed where environmental damage from activities such as mining is possible but very unlikely (from 1 to 5)

wildlife

it's important to have places where wildlife is preserved (from 1 to 5)

future

it's important to consider future generations (from 1 to 5)

aboriginal

in deciding how to use areas such as Kakadu national park, their importance to the local aboriginal people should be a major factor (from 1 to 5)

finben

in deciding how to use our natural resources such as mineral deposits and forests, the most important thing is the financial benefits for Australia (from 1 to 5)

mineparks

if areas within natural parks are set aside for development projects such as mining, the value of the parks is greatly reduced (from 1 to 5)

moreparks

there should be more national parks created from state forests (from 1 to 5)

gov

the government pays little attention to the people in making decisions (from 1 to 4)

envcon

the respondent recycles things such as paper or glass and regularly buys unbleached toilet paper or environmentally friendly products?

vparks

the respondent has visited a national park or bushland recreation area in the previous 12 months?

tvenv

the respondent watches TV programs about the environment? (from 1 to 9)

conservation

the respondent is member of a conservation organization?

sex

male,female

age

age

schooling

years of schooling

income

respondent's income in thousands of dollars

major

the respondent received the major–impact scenario of the Kakadu conservation zone survey ?

Source

Werner, Megan (1999) “Allowing for zeros in dichotomous–choice contingent–valuation models”, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 17(4), October, 479–486.

References

Journal of Business Economics and Statistics web site : https://amstat.tandfonline.com/loi/ubes20.

See Also

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


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