camerondata (version 1.0.0)

vietnamlss: Household medical expenditure

Description

Data from the World Bank's 1997 Vietnam Living Standards Survey 1997-98 at the household level. Cameron and Trivedi (2005)

Usage

vietnamlss

Format

A data frame with 5999 observations and 9 variables:

sex

gender of household head, 1 = male; 2 = female

age

age of household head

educyr98

schooling year of household head

farm

type of household, = 1 if farm

urban98

= 1 if urban area, = 0 if rural area

hhsize

household size

lhhexp1

household total expenditure, ln

lhhex12m

household medical expenditure, ln

lnrlfood

household food expenditure, ln

Section in Text

4.6.4 Quantile Regression Example, pp. 88-90

References

Cameron, A. and Trivedi, P. (2005), "Microeconometrics: Methods and Applications," Cambridge University Press, New York.

World Bank Living Standards Survey 1997-1998 Vietnam. https://microdata.worldbank.org/index.php/catalog/2694

Examples

# NOT RUN {
summary(vietnamlss)
# }