Municipal Expenditure Data
Municipalities.RdPanel data set for 265 Swedish municipalities covering 9 years (1979-1987).
Usage
data("Municipalities")Format
A data frame containing 2,385 observations on 5 variables.
- municipality
factor with ID number for municipality.
- year
factor coding year.
- expenditures
total expenditures.
- revenues
total own-source revenues.
- grants
intergovernmental grants received by the municipality.
Details
Total expenditures contains both capital and current expenditures.
Expenditures, revenues, and grants are expressed in million SEK. The series are deflated and in per capita form. The implicit deflator is a municipality-specific price index obtained by dividing total local consumption expenditures at current prices by total local consumption expenditures at fixed (1985) prices.
The data are gathered by Statistics Sweden and obtained from Financial Accounts for the Municipalities (Kommunernas Finanser).
Source
Journal of Applied Econometrics Data Archive.
http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/jae/2000-v15.4/dahlberg-johansson/
References
Dahlberg, M., and Johansson, E. (2000). An Examination of the Dynamic Behavior of Local Governments Using GMM Bootstrapping Methods. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 15, 401–416.
Greene, W.H. (2003). Econometric Analysis, 5th edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Examples
## Greene (2003), Table 18.2
data("Municipalities")
summary(Municipalities)
#> municipality year expenditures revenues
#> 114 : 9 1979 :265 Min. :0.01223 Min. :0.006228
#> 115 : 9 1980 :265 1st Qu.:0.01622 1st Qu.:0.011339
#> 120 : 9 1981 :265 Median :0.01796 Median :0.012952
#> 123 : 9 1982 :265 Mean :0.01848 Mean :0.013423
#> 125 : 9 1983 :265 3rd Qu.:0.02014 3rd Qu.:0.014821
#> 126 : 9 1984 :265 Max. :0.03388 Max. :0.029142
#> (Other):2331 (Other):795
#> grants
#> Min. :0.001571
#> 1st Qu.:0.004488
#> Median :0.004978
#> Mean :0.005236
#> 3rd Qu.:0.005539
#> Max. :0.012589
#>