Shiferaw Gurmu, "Semiparametric Estimation of Hurdle Regression Models With an Application to Medicaid Utilization", Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 12, No. 3, 1997, pp. 225-242. The file sg.zip contains the ASCII file sg.dat, which is in DOS format. It consists of 996 observations on 13 variables. Columns of the data represent variables. Rows 1-485 (486-996) are for the AFDC (SSI) sample. Data are taken from the 1986 Medicaid Consumer Survey sponsored by the Health Care Financing Administration. The variables appear in the order given below. 1. Doctor visits 2. Exposure 3. Children 4. Age 5. Income times 1000 6. Access 7. PC1 times 1000 8. PC2 times 1000 9. Marital Status 10. Sex (1 = female) 11. Race 12. School 13. Enroll