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Data for statutory reforms and retention of prescribed fire liability laws on forest land by state
Description
This data set contains a cross-sectional data set for current adoption of statutory laws with regard to prescribed fire liability on forest landowners. It has 50 observations and 16 variables.
SHORT
Two-letter abbreviations of 50 state names
STATE
Full state names
Y
Categorical dependent variable (Y = 0, 1, 2, or 3)
FYNFS
National Forests area in a state (million acres)
FYIND
Industrial forest land area in a state (million acres)
FYNIP
Nonindustrial private forest land area in a state (million acres)
AGEN
Permanent forestry program personnel in a state
POPRUR
Rural population in a state (million)
EDU
Population 25 years and older with advanced degrees in a state (million)
INC
Per capita income in a state (thousand dollars)
DAY
The maximum length of legislative sessions in calendar days in a state
BIANN
A dummy variable equal to one for states with annual legislative sessions, zero with biannual (or less)
SEAT
Total number of legislative seats (Senate plus House) in the legislative body in a state
BICAM
Level of bicameralism in a state, defined as the size of the Senate divided by the size of the House
COMIT
Total number of standing committees in a state
RATIO
Total number of standing committees in a state divided by the number of legislators
Usage
data(daLaw)
Format
A data frame object with 50 rows and 16 variables.
Details
This is the final data set used in the study of Sun (2006).
Source
See Table 2 in Sun (2006) for detail of data sources.
References
Sun, C. 2006. State statutory reforms and retention of prescribed fire liability laws on US forest land. Forest Policy and Economics 9(4):392-402.