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<h2>Stated Preferences for Car Choice </h2>

<h3>Description</h3>


<p>a cross-section
</p>
<p><EM>number of observations</EM> :  4654
</p>
<p><EM>observation</EM> :  individuals
</p>
<p><EM>country</EM> :  United States
</p>


<h3>Usage</h3>

<pre>data(Car)</pre>


<h3>Format</h3>

<p>A dataframe containing :
</p>

<dl>
<dt>choice</dt><dd><p>choice of a vehicule amoung 6 propositions</p>
</dd>
<dt>college</dt><dd><p>college education ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>hsg2</dt><dd><p>size of household greater than 2 ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>coml5</dt><dd><p>commulte lower than 5 miles a day ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>typez</dt><dd><p>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</p>
</dd>
<dt>fuelz</dt><dd><p>fuel for proposition z, one of gasoline, methanol, cng (compressed natural gas), electric.</p>
</dd>
<dt>pricez</dt><dd><p>price of vehicule divided by the logarithme of income</p>
</dd>
<dt>rangez</dt><dd><p>hundreds of miles vehicule  can travel between refuelings/rechargings</p>
</dd>
<dt>accz</dt><dd><p>acceleration, tens of seconds required to reach 30 mph from stop</p>
</dd>
<dt>speedz</dt><dd><p>highest attainable speed in hundreds of mph</p>
</dd>
<dt>pollutionz</dt><dd><p>tailpipe emissions as fraction of those for new gas vehicule</p>
</dd>
<dt>sizez</dt><dd><p>0 for a mini, 1 for a subcompact, 2 for a compact and 3 for a mid&ndash;size or large vehicule</p>
</dd>
<dt>spacez</dt><dd><p>fraction of luggage space in comparable new gas vehicule</p>
</dd>
<dt>costz</dt><dd><p>cost per mile of travel (tens of cents) : home recharging for electric vehicule, station refueling otherwise</p>
</dd>
<dt>stationz</dt><dd><p>fraction of stations that can refuel/recharge vehicule</p>
</dd>
</dl>



<h3>Source</h3>


<p>McFadden, Daniel  and  Kenneth  Train (2000) &ldquo;Mixed MNL models for discrete response&rdquo;, <EM>Journal of Applied Econometrics</EM>, <B>15(5)</B>, 447&ndash;470.
</p>


<h3>References</h3>


<p>Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive : <a href="http://jae.wiley.com/jae/">http://jae.wiley.com/jae/</a>.
</p>


<h3>See Also</h3>

<p><code>Index.Source</code>, <code>Index.Economics</code>, <code>Index.Econometrics</code>, <code>Index.Observations</code></p>


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