R: Willingness to Pay for the Preservation of the Kakadu...

Kakadu {Ecdat}

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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.

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