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Extramarital Affairs Data

Description

a cross-section

number of observations : 601

observation : individuals

country : United States

Usage

data(Fair)

Format

A dataframe containing :

sex

a factor with levels (male,female)

age

age

ym

number of years married

child

children ? a factor

religious

how religious, from 1 (anti) to 5 (very)

education

education

occupation

occupation, from 1 to 7, according to Hollingshead's classification (reverse numbering)

rate

self rating of marriage, from 1 (very unhappy) to 5 (very happy)

nbaffairs

number of affairs in past year

Source

Fair, R. (1977) “A note on the computation of the tobit estimator”, Econometrica, 45, 1723-1727.

https://fairmodel.econ.yale.edu/rayfair/pdf/1978A200.PDF.

References

Greene, W.H. (2003) Econometric Analysis, Prentice Hall, https://archive.org/details/econometricanaly0000gree_f4x3, Table F22.2.

See Also

Index.Source, Index.Economics, Index.Econometrics, Index.Observations