Employment Research Data Center

Welcome to the Study of Unemployment Insurance Exhaustees Public Use Data CD. This document provides basic information about the files on this CD. Clicking on underlined blue text in the sections below will link you to that document.

Acrobat Reader is required for many documents on this CD. If you do not have Acrobat Reader on your system, you may install it from this CD following the instructions in the "Installing Acrobat Reader" section below.

A listing of the files contained on the CD can be found in the CDcontents document. The data summary offers a brief overview of the data used in the Study of Unemployment Insurance Exhaustees.

The REPORTS subdirectory contains the executive summary and final report, written by Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

The DATA subdirectory contains the two datasets, National and UIvar. The Upjohn Institute has formatted the data into comma-delimited ASCII files (.asc files), Stata version 6.0 files (.dta files) and SAS export/transport files (.tpt files), which can be found in the "Upjohn Institute Created Files" folder within the DATA subdirectory.

For those using the SAS export/transport files, the file Import.sas in the "Upjohn Institute Created files" folder contains a sample program to import the SAS export/transport file into the user’s SAS system.

The DOCUMENTATION subdirectory contains the public use documentation, which includes a copy of the survey instrument. The "Upjohn Institute Created files" folder within the DOCUMENTATION subdirectory contains the file contents and variable means for the National and UIvar datasets.

The IMAGES subdirectory contains the header image used in this file. This directory does not contain any information about the study itself.

Installing Acrobat Reader

Acrobat Reader is required to read many of the documents on this CD. To install Acrobat Reader 5.0 with Search:

	Open the INSTALL folder in Windows Explorer
	Double-click on the rp500enu.exe application
	Follow the directions given on the screen