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Publications Ph.D. Program The Spanish Household Budget Survey (EPF) Innovation and Employment in European Firms: (IEEF)    



The Spanish Households Budget Survey for 1990/91


Introduction to the EPF.

Documentation

The documentation is only available in Spanish as a DVI or Postscript file. You can find the following:

  1. A discussion about the criteria taken and the procedures followed, stressing the difficulties that have been found.
  2. A warning note to the user about some classic problems of this kind of surveys.
  3. A description of each file's format together with the variables it contains.
  4. Tables with some descriptive statistics to allow users check easily that they have correctly read the data.

Data Files in Stata v 7.0

NOTICE: there are some problems about opening Stata v7.0 files in Stata v6.0. Because Stata v6.0 does not support Stata v7.0 files. If you need Stata v6.0 dataset, please contact with webmaster.

Data files for the EPF 1990/91 are available in ZIP-compressed ASCII format. You can use WinZip for Windows, ZipIt for Macintosh, or Unix commands gunzip/unzip to uncompress them. You can download file to file or everything together in .zip or .tar.gz formats.

We advise you to read the documentation before using the files.

If you find any error in the documentation or the data files, or you have any suggestion, please contact webmaster.

We would also be very grateful if you send us any additional contribution which could be useful for other users (e.g. scripts to transform data files into other formats like SAS, Stata, etc.)

Commodities File, Group I (e91bi.zip)
ZIP-compressed ASCII file, 7095 Kbs.

Commodities File, Group II (e91bii.zip)
ZIP-compressed ASCII file, 912 Kbs.

Commodities File, Group III (e91biii.zip)
ZIP-compressed ASCII file, 1217 Kbs.

Commodities File, Group IV (e91biv.zip)
ZIP-compressed ASCII file, 893 Kbs.

Commodities File, Group V (e91bv.zip)
ZIP-compressed ASCII file, 303 Kbs.

Commodities File, Group VI (e91bvi.zip)
ZIP-compressed ASCII file, 784 Kbs.

Commodities File, Group VII (e91bvii.zip)
ZIP-compressed ASCII file, 947 Kbs.

Commodities File, Group VIII (e91bviii.zip)
ZIP-compressed ASCII file, 1891 Kbs.

Commodities File, Group IX (e91bix.zip)
ZIP-compressed ASCII file, 542 Kbs.

"Rubricas" File (e901r57.zip)
ZIP-compressed ASCII file, 2823 Kbs.

Groups File (e901g.zip)
ZIP-compressed ASCII file, 2245 Kbs.

Income, Savings and Personal Characteristics File (e901iacp.zip)
ZIP-compressed ASCII file, 1824 Kbs.

Household Characteristics File (e901ch.zip)
ZIP-compressed ASCII file, 608 Kbs.

Housing Characteristics File (e901v.zip)
ZIP-compressed Stata file, 519 Kbs.

Stocks of House Durable Goods File (e901e.zip)
ZIP-compressed ASCII file, 1193 Kbs.

All the data files

Stata v7.0 dictionaries

 

Commodities File, Group I (e91bi.dct)

Commodities File, Group II (e91bii.dct)

Commodities File, Group III (e91biii.dct)

Commodities File, Group IV (e91biv.dct)

Commodities File, Group V (e91bv.dct)

Commodities File, Group VI (e91bvi.dct)

Commodities File, Group VII (e91bvii.dct)

Commodities File, Group VIII (e91bviii.dct)

Commodities File, Group IX (e91bix.dct)

Income, Savings and Personal Characteristics File (e901iacp.dct)

Household Characteristics File (e901ch.dct)

Housing Characteristics File (e901v.dct)

Stocks of House Durable Goods File (e901e.dct)


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