Budget Shares of British Households

Description

a cross-section from 1980 to 1982

number of observations : 1519

observation : households

country : United Kingdom

Usage

data(BudgetUK)

Format

A dataframe containing :

wfood

budget share for food expenditure

wfuel

budget share for fuel expenditure

wcloth

budget share for clothing expenditure

walc

budget share for alcohol expenditure

wtrans

budget share for transport expenditure

wother

budget share for other good expenditure

totexp

total household expenditure (rounded to the nearest 10 UK pounds sterling)

income

total net household income (rounded to the nearest 10 UK pounds sterling)

age

age of household head

children

number of children

Source

Blundell, Richard, Alan Duncan and Krishna Pendakur (1998) “Semiparametric estimation and consumer demand”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 13(5), 435–462.

References

Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive : http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/jae/.

See Also

Index.Source, Index.Economics, Index.Econometrics, Index.Observations