usagri {productivity}

Price indices and implicit quantities of USA farm outputs and inputs by State, 1995-2004

Description

This data set from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and its Economic Research Service department contains USA agriculture's input and output quantities along with their respective price indices for 48 States.

All quantities are expressed in thousand US$1996 and prices are relative to Alabama 1996 = 1.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 480 observations on the following 17 variables:

- p.livestock:	Livestock and animal products' relative price (reference is 1 = Alabama 1996).
- States:	48 States of the USA identified with two capital letters.
- States.num:	State number.
- Years:	Year.
- q.livestock:	Livestock and animal products' quantity, in thousand US$1996.
- q.crop:	Crops' quantity, in thousand US$1996.
- q.other:	Other farm-related productions' quantity, in thousand US$1996.
- q.capital:	Capital services' quantity, in thousand US$1996.
- q.land:	Land services' quantity, in thousand US$1996.
- q.labor:	Labor services' quantity, in thousand US$1996.
- q.materials:	Total intermediate input quantity, in thousand US$1996.
- p.livestock:	Livestock and animal products' relative price (reference is 1 = Alabama 1996).
- p.crop:	Crops' relative price (reference is 1 = Alabama 1996).
- p.other:	Other farm-related productions' relative price (reference is 1 = Alabama 1996).
- p.capital:	Capital services' relative price (reference is 1 = Alabama 1996).
- p.land:	Land service flows' relative price (reference is 1 = Alabama 1996).
- p.labor:	Labor services' relative price (reference is 1 = Alabama 1996).
- p.materials:	Total intermediate inputs' relative price (reference is 1 = Alabama 1996).

Details

Further details on the data and the different variables can be found in the references.

Source

http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/agricultural-productivity-in-the-us.aspx

References

Ball V.E., Gollop F.M., Kelly-Hawke A., and Swinand G.P. (1999), Patterns of state productivity growth in the US farm sector: Linking state and aggregate models. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 81(1], 164–179. https://doi.org/10.2307/1244458

Ball V.E., Hallahan C., and Nehring R. (2004), Convergence of productivity: An analysis of the catch-up hypothesis within a panel of states. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 86(5), 1315–1321. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0002-9092.2004.00683.x

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