appleProdFr86: Data on French Apple Producers in 1986
Description
The appleProdFr86 data frame includes
cross-sectional production data of 140 French apple producers
from the year 1986.
These data have been extracted from a panel data set
that was used in Ivaldi et al. (1996).Format
This data frame contains the following columns:
- vCap
- costs of capital (including land).
- vLab
- costs of labour
(including remuneration of unpaid family labour).
- vMat
- costs of intermediate materials
(e.g. seedlings, fertilizer, pesticides, fuel).
- qApples
- quantity index of produced apples.
- qOtherOut
- quantity index of all other outputs.
- qOut
- quantity index of all outputs
(not in the original data set,
calculated as 580,000 $*$
(
qApples + qOtherOut)). - pCap
- price index of capital goods
- pLab
- price index of labour.
- pMat
- price index of materials.
- pOut
- price index of the aggregate output
(not in the original data set, artificially generated).
- adv
- dummy variable indicating the use of an advisory service
(not in the original data set, artificially generated).
References
Ivaldi, M., N. Ladoux, H. Ossard, and M. Simioni (1996)
Comparing Fourier and Translog Specifications of Multiproduct
Technology: Evidence from an Incomplete Panel of French Farmers.
Journal of Applied Econometrics, 11(6), p. 649-667.