Employment Research Data Center

Welcome to the public use data CD for the project "Evaluating the Effectiveness of Active Labor Programs in Poland". 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 personal computer system, you may install it from this CD following the instructions in the "Installing Acrobat Reader" section below.

The document CDcontents lists the files included on this CD. A brief overview of the data is provided by the data summary.

The REPORTS subdirectory contains the executive summary, technical report, and Poland public use data documentation.

All data files are located in the DATA subdirectory. The CD contains the Poland and Random public use data sets in ASCII format (.dat files), Stata version 6.0 format (.dta files), and SAS export format (.xpt files).

Documentation for these files, including the file layout and variable means, can be found in the data documentation in the REPORTS subdirectory. Please note that this documentation was written for the original ASCII file. Variable names and definitions will be the same for the Stata and SAS export/transport files, but variables may appear in a different order than listed in the documentation. Variable means by record type for the Poland data set can be found on pages 46-64 of the documentation. Means for the Random data set, which contains administrative data only, can be found on pages 131-132.

For those using the SAS export/transport files, the file Import.sas contains a sample program to import the SAS export file into the user’s SAS system. This file can also be found in the DATA subdirectory.

The programs Public.sas and Random.sas, found in the DATA subdirectory, provide sample SAS programs for reading the Poland and Random ASCII data files, respectively. These programs can be used as a guide to read the data into programs other than SAS, and can be opened using any word processing software.

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