Wooldridge Source: Terza, J.V. (2002), “Alcohol Abuse and Employment: A Second Look,” Journal of Applied Econometrics 17, 393-404. I obtained these data from the Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive at http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/jae/. Data loads lazily.

data('alcohol')

Format

A data.frame with 9822 observations on 33 variables:

  • abuse: =1 if abuse alcohol

  • status: out of workforce = 1; unemployed = 2, employed = 3

  • unemrate: state unemployment rate

  • age: age in years

  • educ: years of schooling

  • married: =1 if married

  • famsize: family size

  • white: =1 if white

  • exhealth: =1 if in excellent health

  • vghealth: =1 if in very good health

  • goodhealth: =1 if in good health

  • fairhealth: =1 if in fair health

  • northeast: =1 if live in northeast

  • midwest: =1 if live in midwest

  • south: =1 if live in south

  • centcity: =1 if live in central city of MSA

  • outercity: =1 if in outer city of MSA

  • qrt1: =1 if interviewed in first quarter

  • qrt2: =1 if interviewed in second quarter

  • qrt3: =1 if interviewed in third quarter

  • beertax: state excise tax, $ per gallon

  • cigtax: state cigarette tax, cents per pack

  • ethanol: state per-capita ethanol consumption

  • mothalc: =1 if mother an alcoholic

  • fathalc: =1 if father an alcoholic

  • livealc: =1 if lived with alcoholic

  • inwf: =1 if status > 1

  • employ: =1 if employed

  • agesq: age^2

  • beertaxsq: beertax^2

  • cigtaxsq: cigtax^2

  • ethanolsq: ethanol^2

  • educsq: educ^2

Source

https://www.cengage.com/cgi-wadsworth/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M20b&product_isbn_issn=9781111531041

Used in Text

page 629

Examples

str(alcohol)
#> 'data.frame': 9822 obs. of 33 variables: #> $ abuse : int 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ... #> $ status : int 1 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 3 ... #> $ unemrate : num 4 4 4 3.3 3.3 ... #> $ age : int 50 37 53 59 43 38 34 45 47 31 ... #> $ educ : int 4 12 9 11 10 10 10 2 5 12 ... #> $ married : int 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ... #> $ famsize : int 1 5 3 1 1 1 4 2 2 1 ... #> $ white : int 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 ... #> $ exhealth : int 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 ... #> $ vghealth : int 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ... #> $ goodhealth: int 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 ... #> $ fairhealth: int 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ... #> $ northeast : int 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 ... #> $ midwest : int 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 ... #> $ south : int 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ... #> $ centcity : int 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 ... #> $ outercity : int 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 ... #> $ qrt1 : int 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ... #> $ qrt2 : int 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ... #> $ qrt3 : int 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ... #> $ beertax : num 0.334 0.334 0.334 0.24 0.24 ... #> $ cigtax : num 38 38 38 26 26 26 20 20 20 20 ... #> $ ethanol : num 2.04 2.04 2.04 2.45 2.45 ... #> $ mothalc : int 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ... #> $ fathalc : int 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 ... #> $ livealc : int 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 ... #> $ inwf : int 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 ... #> $ employ : int 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 ... #> $ agesq : int 2500 1369 2809 3481 1849 1444 1156 2025 2209 961 ... #> $ beertaxsq : num 0.1116 0.1116 0.1116 0.0576 0.0576 ... #> $ cigtaxsq : num 1444 1444 1444 676 676 ... #> $ ethanolsq : num 4.16 4.16 4.16 6 6 ... #> $ educsq : int 16 144 81 121 100 100 100 4 25 144 ... #> - attr(*, "time.stamp")= chr "22 Jan 2013 14:09"