Employment Research Data Center

Welcome to the Washington Reemployment Bonus Experiment 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.

The contents of this CD are listed in the CDcontents document. A brief overview of the data can be found in the data summary.

The REPORTS subdirectory contains the executive summary, final report, and data documentation.

The DATA subdirectory contains the data, contents, and variable means for the WREB dataset. The dataset can be found in ASCII format (.dat file), Stata version 6.0 format (.dta file), and SAS export/transport format (.xpt file). The document WREB_contents lists the contents of the WREB data set, and WREB_means contains the variable means and frequencies.

For those using the SAS export/transport files, the file Import.sas in the same folder contains a sample program to import the SAS export/transport file into the user’s SAS system. The program WREB_read.sas provides an example program for reading the ASCII data set into SAS. This program may need to be modified for the specific SAS system of the user.

Data documentation for the WREB dataset can be found in the REPORTS subdirectory on the CD. Please note that this documentation was originally written for an ASCII file on 9-track tape. This is the same ASCII file that is provided in .dat format on this CD. All variables remain as described in the original documentation, although they may be listed in a different order than that given in the documentation.

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