### Boston Housing Data

The data comprises 506 obsservations for each census district of the Boston metropolitan area. The data set was analyzed in Belsley et al. (1980). The data is used in Applied Multivariate Statistical Analysis (2003) by Wolfgang Härdle and Léopold Simar.

properties
id: | bostonh.dat
dimension: | 506 x 14
format: | MD*Tech XploRe 4 dataset
source: | [1978] "Hedonic prices and the demand for clean air", J. Environ. Economics and Management 5: 81-102, Harrison and Rubinfeld
coverage: | ; United States of America
key words: | boston house; house price
contact: | Center for Applied Statistics and Economics

| id | title | type | format | remarks
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
1. | crimerate | per capita crime rate | metric | n/a |
2. | residentialzone | proportion of residential land zoned for large lots | metric | n/a |
3. | nonretail | proportion of nonretail business acres | metric | n/a |
4. | river | Charles river | binomial | n/a | 1 if tract bounds river, 0 otherwise
5. | NOconcentration | nitric oxides concentration | metric | n/a |
6. | noofrooms | average number of rooms per dwelling | metric | n/a |
7. | age | roportion of owner-occupied units built prior to 1940 | metric | n/a |
8. | distance | weighted distances to five Boston employment centers | metric | n/a |
9. | accesstohigway | index of accessibility to radial highways | metric | n/a |
10. | taxrate | full-value property tax-rate per $ 10,000 | metric | n/a |
11. | pupilteacher | pupil--teacher ratio | metric | n/a |
12. | blackpeople | 1000(B - 0.63)^2I(B less than 0.63)where B is the proportion of blacks | metric | n/a |
13. | lowerstatus | % lower status of the population | metric | n/a |
14. | valueofhome | median value of owner-occupied homes in $1000 | metric | n/a |

This data is also distributed in combination with XploRe (>=4.5) as file `bostonh.dat`.

The author of this description is Xia Su (stat@wiwi.hu-berlin.de). You can use the table of contents for downloading data. | (C)