vietnamlss dataset

Household medical expenditure

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

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

Source

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

vietnamlss

Section in Text

4.6.4 Quantile Regression Example, pp. 88-90

Examples

summary(vietnamlss)

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