| appleProdFr86 {micEcon} | R Documentation |
Data on French Apple Producers in 1986
Description
The appleProdFr86 data frame includes
cross-sectional production data of 140 French apple producers
from the year 1986.
These data have been extracted from a panel data set
that was used in Ivaldi et al. (1996).
Usage
data(appleProdFr86)Format
This data frame contains the following columns:
- vCap
costs of capital (including land).
- vLab
costs of labour (including remuneration of unpaid family labour).
- vMat
costs of intermediate materials (e.g. seedlings, fertilizer, pesticides, fuel).
- qApples
quantity index of produced apples.
- qOtherOut
quantity index of all other outputs.
- qOut
quantity index of all outputs (not in the original data set, calculated as 580,000
\cdot(qApples+qOtherOut)).- pCap
price index of capital goods
- pLab
price index of labour.
- pMat
price index of materials.
- pOut
price index of the aggregate output (not in the original data set, artificially generated).
- adv
dummy variable indicating the use of an advisory service (not in the original data set, artificially generated).
Source
This cross-sectional data set has been extracted from a panel data set that is available in the data archive of the Journal of Applied Econometrics: http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/jae/1996-v11.6/ivaldi-ladoux-ossard-simioni/.
References
Ivaldi, M., N. Ladoux, H. Ossard, and M. Simioni (1996) Comparing Fourier and Translog Specifications of Multiproduct Technology: Evidence from an Incomplete Panel of French Farmers. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 11(6), p. 649-667.