Stated Preferences for Car Choice

Description

a cross-section

number of observations : 4654

observation : individuals

country : United States

Usage

data(Car)

Format

A dataframe containing :

choice

choice of a vehicule amoung 6 propositions

college

college education ?

hsg2

size of household greater than 2 ?

coml5

commulte lower than 5 miles a day ?

typez

body type, one of regcar (regular car), sportuv (sport utility vehicule), sportcar, stwagon (station wagon), truck, van, for each proposition z from 1 to 6

fuelz

fuel for proposition z, one of gasoline, methanol, cng (compressed natural gas), electric.

pricez

price of vehicule divided by the logarithme of income

rangez

hundreds of miles vehicule can travel between refuelings/rechargings

accz

acceleration, tens of seconds required to reach 30 mph from stop

speedz

highest attainable speed in hundreds of mph

pollutionz

tailpipe emissions as fraction of those for new gas vehicule

sizez

0 for a mini, 1 for a subcompact, 2 for a compact and 3 for a mid–size or large vehicule

spacez

fraction of luggage space in comparable new gas vehicule

costz

cost per mile of travel (tens of cents) : home recharging for electric vehicule, station refueling otherwise

stationz

fraction of stations that can refuel/recharge vehicule

Source

McFadden, Daniel and Kenneth Train (2000) “Mixed MNL models for discrete response”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 15(5), 447–470.

References

Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive : http://jae.wiley.com/jae/.

See Also

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