fishing {camerondata}

Fishing mode choice

Description

Data sample of 1,182 people from a survey conducted by Thomson and Crooke (1991) and analyzed by Herriges and Kling (1999). Cameron and Trivedi (2005).

Usage

fishing

Format

A data frame with 1182 observations and 16 variables:

mode

fishing mode choice, = 1 beach, = 2 pier, = 3 private boat, = 4 charter boat

price

price for chosen alternative, usd

crate

catch rate for chosen alternative, sum of per-hour catch rates of targeted species.

dbeach

= 1 if beach mode chosen, = 0 otherwise

dpier

= 1 if pier mode chosen, = 0 otherwise

dprivate

= 1 if private boat mode chosen, = 0 otherwise

dcharter

= 1 if charter boat mode chosen, = 0 otherwise

pbeach

price for beach mode, usd

ppier

price for pier mode, usd

pprivate

price for private boat mode, usd

pcharter

price for charter boat mode, usd

qbeach

catch rate for beach mode

qpier

catch rate for pier mode

qprivate

catch rate for private boat mode

qcharter

catch rate for charter boat mode

income

monthly income, usd

Section in Text

14.2 Binary Outcome Example: Fishing Mode Choice, pp. 464-6, 486

15.2 Choice of Fishing Mode, pp. 491-5

Source

http://cameron.econ.ucdavis.edu/mmabook/mmadata.html

References

Cameron, A. and Trivedi, P. (2005), "Microeconometrics: Methods and Applications," Cambridge University Press, New York.

Herriges, J. and Kling, C. (1999), "Nonlinear Income Effects in Random Utility Models," Review of Economics and Statistics, 81, 62-72.

Thomson, C., and Crooke, S. (1991), "Results of the Southern California Sportfish Economic Survey," NOAA Technical Memorandum, National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science Center.

Examples

summary(fishing)