fishing dataset

Fishing mode choice

Data sample of 1,182 people from a survey conducted by Thomson and Crooke (1991) and analyzed by Herriges and Kling (1999). Cameron and Trivedi (2005). data

Format

A data frame with 1182 observations and 16 variables:

• mode: fishing mode choice, = 1 beach, = 2 pier, = 3 private boat, = 4 charter boat
• price: price for chosen alternative, usd
• crate: catch rate for chosen alternative, sum of per-hour catch rates of targeted species.
• dbeach: = 1 if beach mode chosen, = 0 otherwise
• dpier: = 1 if pier mode chosen, = 0 otherwise
• dprivate: = 1 if private boat mode chosen, = 0 otherwise
• dcharter: = 1 if charter boat mode chosen, = 0 otherwise
• pbeach: price for beach mode, usd
• ppier: price for pier mode, usd
• pprivate: price for private boat mode, usd
• pcharter: price for charter boat mode, usd
• qbeach: catch rate for beach mode
• qpier: catch rate for pier mode
• qprivate: catch rate for private boat mode
• qcharter: catch rate for charter boat mode
• income: monthly income, usd

Source

http://cameron.econ.ucdavis.edu/mmabook/mmadata.html

fishing

Section in Text

14.2 Binary Outcome Example: Fishing Mode Choice, pp. 464-6, 486

15.2 Choice of Fishing Mode, pp. 491-5

Examples

summary(fishing)

References

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

Herriges, J. and Kling, C. (1999), "Nonlinear Income Effects in Random Utility Models," Review of Economics and Statistics, 81, 62-72.

Thomson, C., and Crooke, S. (1991), "Results of the Southern California Sportfish Economic Survey," NOAA Technical Memorandum, National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science Center.