Moshe Buchinsky, "The Dynamic of Changes in the Female Wage Distribution
in the U.S.: A Quantile Regression Approach", Journal of Applied
Econometrics, Vol. 13, No. 1, 1998, pp. 1-30.

The data are organized in five separate files, each of which
contains variables from an extract from the March Current
Population Survey (March-CPS).  The files are named:

 data68.zip
 data73.zip
 data79.zip
 data86.zip
 data90.zip

for the years 1968, 1973, 1979, 1986 and 1990, respectively.  These
are all compressed files.  You can decompress a file by using unzip or 
pkunzip.

Each of the compressed files contains variables organized in SEPARATE
ASCII files.  These are in Unix format; DOS and Windows users may need to
convert LF to CR/LF pairs. For example the variable age.dat contains the
information on the age of the person, and that information only, and
similarly for the other variables.  The rows across files match each
other, that is, the same line in different files contains information
about the same individual.

Be careful when unzipping the files, since the name of the files contained
in the compressed file are the same in all years.  It is strongly
recommended that each file be unzipped in a separate subdirectory. 

Each file also contains the SAS program with which the extracts
were created (cps68fm.sas, etc.), so that one can easily use the
generally available March-CPS manuals to identify each and every
variable.

If any further information is needed, or if you have difficulties
using the file, I can be reached at:

Moshe Buchinsky
Department of Economics
Brown University
Box. B
Providence, Rhode Island  02912

Phone: (401) 863-2951
Fax: (401) 863-1970
E-mail: buchins@econ.pstc.brown.edu

Good luck, Moshe Buchinsky