Richard Blundell, Alan Duncan, and Krishna Pendakur, "Semiparametric
Estimation and Consumer Demand", Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 13,
No 5, 1998, pp. 435-462.

The single data file bdp-data.zip is a zipped ASCII file in DOS format.
The expanded file bdp-data.asc is 170.130Kb, organized in columns
separated by spaces. The data are a cross-section of 1519 households drawn
from the 1980-1982 British Family Expenditure Surveys, and there are 10
column variables. Data have been selected to include only households with
one or two children living in Greater London. Self-employed and retired
households have been excluded. 

To anonymise data, income and total expenditure variables have been
rounded to the nearest 10 UK pounds sterling. For those seeking permission
to use non-anonymised FES data, contact the ESRC Data Archive directly via
http://dawww.essex.ac.uk. 


LIST OF VARIABLES

wfood   = budget share for food expenditure
wfuel   = budget share for fuel expenditure
wcloth  = budget share for clothing expenditure
walc    = budget share for alcohol expenditure
wtrans  = budget share for transport expenditure
wother  = budget share for other good expenditure
totexp  = total houshold expenditure
         (rounded to the nearest 10 UK pounds sterling)
income  = total net houshold income
         (rounded to the nearest 10 UK pounds sterling)
age     = age of household head
nk      = number of children


Alan Duncan
Department of Economics
University of York
Heslington
York YO10 5DD
U.K.

E-mail: alan.duncan@ifs.org.uk
Telephone: +44 1904 433794
Fax: +44 1904 433759