Employment Research Data Center

Welcome to the Evaluation of Short-Time Compensation Programs 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 Evaluation of Short-Time Compensation Programs.

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

The DATA subdirectory contains the data, file layouts, contents, and variable means for the Pub_Use and Empsurv datasets. For a description of variables for the Pub_Use data set, see the document PUB_USE.pdf. The survey questions used to compile the Empsurv data set can be found in the document empsurv_codebook.pdf.

These data sets can be found in comma-delimited ASCII format (.asc files) in the DATA subdirectory, along with the contents, survey codebook, file layouts and means. The Pub_Use dataset and associated files were created by Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. and the Empsurv dataset and associated files were created by Berkeley Planning Associates.

In addition to the ASCII format of the data described above, the Upjohn Institute has formatted the data into Stata version 6.0 and SAS export/transport 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. Sample SAS programs to read the Pub_use and Empsurv ASCII files can also be found in this folder.

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