Christophe Bontemps, Michel Simioni, and Yves Surry, "Semiparametric Hedonic Price Models: Assessing the Effects of Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution", Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 23, No. 6, 2008, pp. 825-842. All data are in the file bss-data.txt, which is an ASCII file in DOS format. It is zipped in the file bss-data.zip. Unix users should use "unzip -a". Data come from various sources described in section 4: - A real estate database, known as MIN, maintained by the association of French notaries - The French census, collected by the INSEE - The regional branch (Brittany) of the French Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. The list of variables follows. A detailed explanation of the nature and sources of each of them is given in section 4 of the paper. Variable Description Units PRICE Market Price (in log) French Francs(x10000) AGE Age Year REPAIR State of repair =1 if good ROOMS Number of rooms # LOT Lot size m^2 (x1000) COUNTY County location =1 if ``Ille et Vilaine'' VACANT Vacant Housing Percentage POP County population # (x1000) AVINC Average income French Francs(x1000) TMEAD Temporary meadows Percentage NITRO Nitrogen concentration kg/ha NB: All the computations done in the paper used prices and average income expressed in French Francs. Results are expressed in Euros using the formula 1 Euro = 6.55957 French Francs (see for instance some summary statistics in Table 1). The total data sample is of 2092 observations distributed over 516 districts with less than 5000 inhabitants (see Table 1 for summary statistics). The data file has 2092 rows and 11 columns. GAUSS codes are available upon request to: Michel Simioni Toulouse School of Economics, GREMAQ-INRA-IDEI 21, allée de Brienne 31000 Toulouse, FRANCE Michel.Simioni [AT] toulouse.inra.fr