Richard V. Burkhauser, Amy Crews Cutts, Mary C. Daly, and Stephen P. Jenkins, "Testing the Significance of Income Distribution Changes Over the 1980s Business Cycle: A Cross-National Comparison", Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 14, No. 3, 1999, pp. 253-272. We use data from the United States Current Population Survey, March subfiles and from the Household Below Average Income subfiles of the United Kingdom's Family Expenditure Survey. The CPS data are freely available from the US Census bureau and off of the internet to those who wish to have access to the complete file. We provide the processed data sets that we used in our paper. These ascii files are titled bcdj80us.dat (65,238 observations), bcdj83us.dat (59,211 observations), and bcdj90us.dat (59,941 observations). They contain three variables which are separated by spaces: HHincome, Hwgt, and HHsize, where HHincome is the total household income from all sources, Hwgt is the CPS household-level sampling weight, and HHsize is the size of the household. All analyses presented or described in our paper for the US using the CPS can be generated from these data files. The three files, which are in DOS format, are zipped in the file bcdj-data.zip. On a Unix system, use "unzip -a" to convert these files to Unix format. The UK HBAI subfile data used in this paper are proprietary, belonging to the UK Department of Social Security, and therefore cannot be supplied by the authors. However the data are freely available to bona fide researchers on request. Contact: HBAI section, Analytical Services Division, Department of Social Security, The Adelphi, 1-11 John Adam Street, London WC2A 2LS, United Kingdom. The Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and the binomial based tests can be easily replicated using any standard statistical package. The modified Epps-Singlton test however required programming on our part. We wrote the code in Fortran and provide the code in the file bcdj-prog.f, a DOS file that is zipped in bcdj-prog.zip No warranty of any kind is implied or expressed with respect to either the data or the Fortran code. If you have any comments or questions regarding the data or the Fortran program, please contact Amy Crews Cutts Economist, Housing Economics and Financial Research Freddie Mac 8200 Jones Branch Drive, Mailstop 484 McLean, VA 22102 (703) 903-2321 (703) 903-4045 (fax) amy_crews@freddiemac.com or amycrews@erols.com Authors: Richard V. Burkhauser Center for Policy Research Syracuse University Amy Crews Cutts Department of Housing Economics and Financial Research Freddie Mac Mary C. Daly Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Stephen P. Jenkins ESRC Research Centre on Micro Social Change University of Essex