Quarterly files provided courtesy of the Congressional Budget Office, who perform some crazy FORTRAN operations on the raw BLS files so that the categories are consistently defined across years. 

Annual March supplement for all available years with consistent naming convention for the entire window. IPUMS Minnesota.

 

Every month, a quarter of the CPS sample is rotated out. This data collection is the merged set of these outgoing rotation groups from all 12 months, yielding a sample 3 times the size of any particular month (e.g. March survey). 

The monthly labor force survey is the source for US unemployment statistics and these copies are created from the NBER collection. Special thanks to Jean Roth, author of the dictionary files. Most users shouldn't be using this copy, because it's the least clean.

 

The Unemployment Insurance programs in each state investigate a random sample of claimants to verify the accuracy of their claims. This sample is submitted to a Federal office and made available for research. Please contact me directly for more information.

 

Files taken from ICPSR for 1977 and from Federal Reserve website for 1983-2001.

 

Files taken from ICPSR but ICPSR does not supply variable lables. The copies in this directory have labels. Users of the KAP series will find the spreadsheet contained in this directory helpful. The newer data (1993+) is from DGBAS.

 

This is a very useful and polished fertility survey.This is the "all India" series taken from measuredhs.org.

 

This is a very useful and polished fertility survey.This is the "all India" series taken from measuredhs.org.

 

This is a very useful and polished fertility survey. This is the "all India" series taken from measuredhs.org.

 

This is a survey on fertility patterns, contraceptive use, and sexual practices.

 

This survey contains rich data on household incomes in China. The only catch is you have to use the data dictionary to identify which variables correspond to each question, no value labels are supplied. All the data and documentation are contained in my directory. 

This survey contains rich data on household incomes in China. The only catch is you have to use the data dictionary to identify which variables correspond to each question, no value labels are supplied. All the data and documentation are contained in my directory.

These are the shapefiles provided by the Harvard Geospatial Library. Special thanks to Steven Leung who processed these files.

 

These are the shapefiles provided by the Harvard Geospatial Library. Special thanks to Steven Leung who processed these files.

 

These are the shapefiles provided by the Harvard Geospatial Library. Special thanks to Steven Leung who processed these files.

 

These are the census samples for calculations in my paper on sex selection. The data is from IPUMSI.

 

These are the census samples for calculations in my paper on sex selection. The data is distributed by the China data archive at Texas A & M.

 

This directory contains the data in my job market project, which has integrated GIS data of air quality, water quality, precipitation, manufacturing output and water dumping in China. I have included documentation in the directory, and interested parties can contact me for further guidance.

These data were originally cleaned by Deaton and Paxson and updated by me. The files contain rich microdata with income, expenditure, and transfers within the household.

 

This is the US Public Use Microsample (5%). IPUMS Minnesota.

 

This is the US Public Use Microsample (5%). IPUMS Minnesota.

 

This is the US Public Use Microsample (5%). IPUMS Minnesota.

 

This is the universal sample of Taiwan's census. Special thanks to David Card who paid for these data. Those interested in using these data should contact me.

 

This is the universal sample of Taiwan's census. Special thanks to David Card who paid for these data. Those interested in using these data should contact me.

 

This is the universal sample of Taiwan's census. Special thanks to David Card who paid for these data. Those interested in using these data should contact me.

 

This directory contains a collection of sub-directories with files containing raw DHS files. This includes individual files on females (female_recode), males (male_recode), and the household roster file (household_recode).