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<h2>Cigarette Consumption </h2>

<h3>Description</h3>


<p>a panel of 46 observations  from 1963  to 1992
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<p><EM>total number of observations</EM> :  1380
</p>
<p><EM>observation</EM> :  regional
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<p><EM>country</EM> :  United States
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<h3>Usage</h3>

<pre>data(Cigar)</pre>


<h3>Format</h3>

<p>A data frame containing :
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<dl>
<dt>state</dt><dd><p>state abbreviation</p>
</dd>
<dt>year</dt><dd><p>the year</p>
</dd>
<dt>price</dt><dd><p>price per pack of cigarettes</p>
</dd>
<dt>pop</dt><dd><p>population</p>
</dd>
<dt>pop16</dt><dd><p>population above the age of 16</p>
</dd>
<dt>cpi</dt><dd><p>consumer price index (1983=100)</p>
</dd>
<dt>ndi</dt><dd><p>per capita disposable income</p>
</dd>
<dt>sales</dt><dd><p>cigarette sales in packs per capita</p>
</dd>
<dt>pimin</dt><dd><p>minimum price in adjoining states per pack of cigarettes</p>
</dd>
</dl>



<h3>Source</h3>


<p>Online complements to Baltagi (2001).
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<p><a href="http://www.wiley.com/legacy/wileychi/baltagi/">http://www.wiley.com/legacy/wileychi/baltagi/</a>.
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<h3>References</h3>


<p>Baltagi, Badi H. (2001) <EM>Econometric Analysis of Panel Data</EM>, 2nd ed., John Wiley and Sons. 
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<p>Baltagi, B.H. and  D. Levin (1992) &ldquo;Cigarette taxation: raising revenues and reducing consumption&rdquo;, <EM>Structural Changes and Economic Dynamics</EM>, <B>3</B>, 321&ndash;335.
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<p>Baltagi, B.H., J.M. Griffin and  W. Xiong (2000) &ldquo;To pool or not to pool: homogeneous versus heterogeneous estimators applied to cigarette demand&rdquo;, <EM>Review of Economics and Statistics</EM>, <B>82</B>, 117&ndash;126.
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