cars_china {logitr}

Stated car choice observations by Chinese car buyers

Description

Data from Helveston et al. (2015) containing 448 stated choice observations from Chinese car buyers and 384 stated choice observations from US car buyers. Conjoint surveys were fielded in 2012 in four major Chinese cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Chengdu), online in the US on Amazon Mechanical Turk, and in person at the Pittsburgh Auto show. Participants were asked to select a vehicle from a set of three alternatives. Each participant answered 15 choice questions.

Usage

data(cars_china)

Format

Variable	Description
id	individual identifiers
obsnum	identifier for unique choice observation
choice	dummy code for choice (1 or 0)
hev	dummy code for HEV vehicle type (1 or 0)
phev10	dummy code for PHEV vehicle type w/10 mile electric driving range (1 or 0)
phev20	dummy code for PHEV vehicle type w/20 mile electric driving range (1 or 0)
phev40	dummy code for PHEV vehicle type w/40 mile electric driving range (1 or 0)
bev75	dummy code for BEV vehicle type w/75 mile electric driving range (1 or 0)
bev100	dummy code for BEV vehicle type w/100 mile electric driving range (1 or 0)
bev150	dummy code for BEV vehicle type w/150 mile electric driving range (1 or 0)
phevFastcharge	dummy code for whether PHEV vehicle had fast charging capability (1 or 0)
bevFastcharge	dummy code for whether BEV vehicle had fast charging capability (1 or 0)
price	price of vehicle ($USD)
opCost	operating cost of vehicle (US cents / mile)
accelTime	0-60 mph acceleration time (seconds)
american	dummy code for whether American brand (1 or 0)
japanese	dummy code for whether Japanese brand (1 or 0)
chinese	dummy code for whether Chinese brand (1 or 0)
skorean	dummy code for whether S. Korean brand (1 or 0)
weights	weights for each individual computed so that the sample age and income demographics matched with those of the general car-buying population

Source

Raw data downloaded from this repo

References

Helveston, J. P., Liu, Y., Feit, E. M., Fuchs, E. R. H., Klampfl, E., & Michalek, J. J. (2015). "Will Subsidies Drive Electric Vehicle Adoption? Measuring Consumer Preferences in the U.S. and China." Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 73, 96–112. doi:10.1016/j.tra.2015.01.002

Examples

data(cars_china)

head(cars_china)