THE ECONOMETRICS OF NON-MARKET VALUATION
PLEASE NOTE: The data and programs on this page are for teaching and demonstration programs only. Any other uses of the data without prior approval of the authors of the data is prohibited.
We thank John Loomis for making this data available to us. The South Platte River data is used in examples in Chapters 2 and 4. A full description of the data can be found on page 31.
The data is in an excel file entitled south.xls.
A SAS (version 8.2) program to duplicate the examples in chapter 2 is available here: southplatte_c2.sas. The excel data set south.xls is needed for this program (Thanks to Heechan Kang, Ohio State University for this program).
A SAS (version 8.2) program to duplicate the examples in chapter 4 is available here: southplatte_ch4.sas. The excel data set south.xls is needed for this program (Thanks to Heechan Kang, Ohio State University for this program). .
Click the following links for the chapter 2 LIMDEP (version 7.0) program (southplatte_ch2.lim) and data files (southplatte_ch2.lpj) (Thanks to Soo-Il Kim, Ohio State University for this program).
Click the following links for the chapter 4 LIMDEP (version 7.0) program (southplatte_ch4.lim) and data files (southplatte_ch4.lpj) (Thanks to Soo-Il Kim, Ohio State University for this program).
There are 95 observations on 7 variables. They are:
YPAY: =1 if a yes response and =0 otherwise
BID: Increment to waterbill (randomly assigned)
UNLIMWAT: =1 if respondent thinks farmers are entitled to unlimited water, =0 otherwise
GOVTPUR: =1 if respondent believes the government should purchase land on the South Platte River, = 0 otherwise.
ENVIRON: =1 if a member of a conservation group
WATERBILL: Average waterbill for the community
HHINC: Before tax household income from all sources for 1997. There is a single missing value in the HHINC variable. For any model that uses HHINC, that observation is dropped.
URBAN: =1 if the respondent lives in a large city.