Crime {plm} | R Documentation

## Crime in North Carolina

### Description

a panel of 90 observational units (counties) from 1981 to 1987

total number of observations : 630

observation : regional

country : United States

### Usage

    data(Crime)

### Format

A data frame containing :

county

  county identifier

year

  year from 1981 to 1987

crmrte

  crimes committed per person

prbarr

  'probability' of arrest

prbconv

  'probability' of conviction

prbpris

  'probability' of prison sentence

avgsen

  average sentence, days

polpc

  police per capita

density

  people per square mile

taxpc

  tax revenue per capita

region

  factor. One of 'other', 'west' or 'central'.

smsa

  factor. (Also called "urban".) Does the individual reside in a SMSA (standard metropolitan statistical area)?

pctmin

  percentage minority in 1980

wcon

  weekly wage in construction

wtuc

  weekly wage in transportation, utilities, communications

wtrd

  weekly wage in wholesale and retail trade

wfir

  weekly wage in finance, insurance and real estate

wser

  weekly wage in service industry

wmfg

  weekly wage in manufacturing

wfed

  weekly wage in federal government

wsta

  weekly wage in state government

wloc

  weekly wage in local government

mix

  offence mix: face-to-face/other

pctymle

  percentage of young males (between ages 15 to 24)

### Source

Journal of Applied Econometrics Data Archive (complements Baltagi (2006)):

http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/jae/2006-v21.4/baltagi/

Online complements to Baltagi (2001):

http://www.wiley.com/legacy/wileychi/baltagi/

Online complements to Baltagi (2013):

http://bcs.wiley.com/he-bcs/Books?action=resource&bcsId=4338&itemId=1118672321&resourceId=13452

See also Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive entry for Baltagi (2006) at http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/jae/2006-v21.4/baltagi/.

### References

Cornwell, C. and W.N. Trumbull (1994) “Estimating the economic model of crime with panel data”, Review of Economics and Statistics, 76(2), pp. 360–366.

Baltagi, B. H. (2006) “Estimating an economic model of crime using panel data from North Carolina”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 21(4), pp. 543–547.

Baltagi, Badi H. (2001) Econometric Analysis of Panel Data, 2nd ed., John Wiley and Sons.

Baltagi, Badi H. (2013) Econometric Analysis of Panel Data, 5th ed., John Wiley and Sons.

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