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Cigarette Consumption
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Description
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a panel of 46 observations from 1963 to 1992

*total number of observations* : 1380

*observation* : regional

*country* : United States

Usage
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::

    data(Cigar)

Format
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A data frame containing :

state
    state abbreviation

year
    the year

price
    price per pack of cigarettes

pop
    population

pop16
    population above the age of 16

cpi
    consumer price index (1983=100)

ndi
    per capita disposable income

sales
    cigarette sales in packs per capita

pimin
    minimum price in adjoining states per pack of cigarettes

Source
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Online complements to Baltagi (2001).

`http://www.wiley.com/legacy/wileychi/baltagi/ <http://www.wiley.com/legacy/wileychi/baltagi/>`_.

References
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Baltagi, Badi H. (2001) *Econometric Analysis of Panel Data*, 2nd ed.,
John Wiley and Sons.

Baltagi, B.H. and D. Levin (1992) “Cigarette taxation: raising revenues
and reducing consumption”, *Structural Changes and Economic Dynamics*,
**3**, 321–335.

Baltagi, B.H., J.M. Griffin and W. Xiong (2000) “To pool or not to pool:
homogeneous versus heterogeneous estimators applied to cigarette
demand”, *Review of Economics and Statistics*, **82**, 117–126.
