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Voting records for the Healthy Forests Restoration Act in 2003 and the associated characteristics of congressmen
Description
This data set contains the voting records for the Healthy Forests Restoration Act in 2003, as used in Sun (2006). The characteristics of individual congressmen are also included. There are 537 observations and 22 variables.
state
state name for a congressman
district
district for a congressman; 0 for senators
name
Family name of a congressman
voteMay
voting record in May 2003 in the House; 1 if yes, 0 if no, and NA if not voted
voteNov
voting record in Nov 2003 in both the House and Senate
RepParty
Dummy equals one if Republican
East
Regional dummy for 11 northeastern states
West
Regional dummy for 11 western states
South
Regional dummy for 13 southern states
PopDen
Population density - 1000 persons per km2
PopRural
Population density per km2
Edu
Percentage of population over 25 with a Bachelor's degree
Income
Median family income ($1,000)
FYland
Percentage of federal lands in total forestlands 2002
Size
Value of shipments of forest industry 1997 (million dollars)
ContrFY
Contribution from forest firms (1,000 dollars)
ContrEN
Contribution from environmental groups (1,000 dollars)
Sex
Dummy equals one if male
Lawyer
Dummy equals one if lawyer
Member
Dummy equals one if a committee member for the HFRA
Year
Number of years in the position
Chamber
Dummy equals one if House and zero if Senate
Usage
data(daRoll)
Format
A data frame object with 537 rows and 22 variables. This is a cross-sectional dataset that are generating from merging several raw datasets.
Details
This is the combinded final data set used in the study of Sun (2006).
Source
See Table 1 in Sun (2006) for detail.
References
Sun, C. 2006. A roll call analysis of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act and constituent interests in fire policy. Forest Policy and Economics 9(2):126-138.