Data on French Apple Producers in 1986

Description

The appleProdFr86 data frame includes cross-sectional production data of 140 French apple producers from the year 1986. These data have been extracted from a panel data set that was used in Ivaldi et al. (1996).

Usage

data(appleProdFr86)

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

vCap

costs of capital (including land).

vLab

costs of labour (including remuneration of unpaid family labour).

vMat

costs of intermediate materials (e.g. seedlings, fertilizer, pesticides, fuel).

qApples

quantity index of produced apples.

qOtherOut

quantity index of all other outputs.

qOut

quantity index of all outputs (not in the original data set, calculated as 580,000 * (qApples + qOtherOut)).

pCap

price index of capital goods

pLab

price index of labour.

pMat

price index of materials.

pOut

price index of the aggregate output (not in the original data set, artificially generated).

adv

dummy variable indicating the use of an advisory service (not in the original data set, artificially generated).

Source

This cross-sectional data set has been extracted from a panel data set that is available in the data archive of the Journal of Applied Econometrics: www.econ.queensu.ca/jae/1996-v11.6/ivaldi-ladoux-ossard-simioni/.

References

Ivaldi, M., N. Ladoux, H. Ossard, and M. Simioni (1996) Comparing Fourier and Translog Specifications of Multiproduct Technology: Evidence from an Incomplete Panel of French Farmers. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 11(6), p. 649-667.

Results