From these pages you can download the data files of the Spanish Households Budget Surveys (EPF) for 1973/74, 1980/81 and 1990/91, developed through the Gumersindo de Azcárate at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and with the support of DGICYT and Fundación Caja de Madrid.

• Introduction to the EPF.
• Documentation and Data Files of the EPF 1973/74
• Documentation and Data Files of the EPF 1980/81
• Documentation and Data Files of the EPF 1990/91
• Documentation and Data Files of the Individual Price Indexes

Introduction to the EPF

During the last decades the "Instituto Nacional de Estadística" (Spanish Statistics National Institute, INE) has been making a series of big Households Budget Surveys (Encuestas de Presupuestos Familiares, EPF) whose main aim is the estimation of the weights in the Consumers Price Index..

Due to the quantity and quality of this information about living standards and behavior of Spanish households, the availability of these microeconomic data in electronic format is one of the best news in last years for demand-side analysts of the Spanish economy. Nevertheless, the huge amount of information that INE tapes contain makes having well documented files, built using alternative or complementary criteria to those taken by INE, very useful to potential users.

For this reason accessible versions of the 1973/74, 1980/81 and 1990/91 surveys are presented here, which have been developed through Professorship Gumersindo de Azcárate at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid with the support of DGICYT and Fundación Caja de Madrid.

Several files have been built with the basic information available: household consumption expenditures, household characteristics, personal characteristics and individual incomes of up to four income-earners in each household, housing characteristics, and the stock of household durable goods.

The criteria taken and the procedures followed are discussed in the documentation of each survey, stressing the difficulties that have been found. The format of the data files is also described, and the tables with some descriptive statistics about the data are included in the appendixes.

The individual Consumer Price Indexes (Índices de Precios de Consumo, IPC) are also available here for the 21,155 households of the EPF 1990-91, base 1992 for january 1983 to january 1998, and base 1983 for january 1977 to december 1992. For the 23,971 households in the EPF 1980-81, data for the price indexes with base 1983 are available from january 1977 to december 1992.