Rice Production in the Philippines

data from Coelli et al. (2005)

This dataset contains the following variables:

  • Time period (1= 1990, …, 8 = 1997): YEARDUM

  • Farmer code (1, …, 43): FMERCODE

  • Output (tonnes of freshly threshed rice): PROD

  • Area planted (hectares): AREA

  • Labour used (man-days of family and hired labour): LABOR

  • Fertiliser used (kg of active ingredients): NPK

  • Other inputs used (Laspeyres index = 100 for Firm 17 in 1991): OTHER

  • Output price (pesos per kg): PRICE

  • Rental price of land (pesos per hectare): AREAP

  • Labour price (pesos per hired man-day: LABORP

  • Fertiliser price (pesos per kg of active ingredient): NPKP

  • Price of other inputs (implicit price index): OTHERP

  • Age of the household head (years): AGE

  • Education of the household head (years): EDYRS

  • Household size: HHSIZE

  • Number of adults in the household: NADULT

  • Percentage of area classified as bantog (upland) fields: BANRAT

References:

[1] Coelli, T. J., Rao, D. S. P., O’Donnell, C. J., and Battese, G. E. (2005) An Introduction to Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, Springer, New York.