Krishna Pendakur, "Semiparametric Estimation of Lifetime Equivalence Scales", Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 20, No. 4, 2005, pp. 487-507. There are twelve data files, which are zipped in the file kp-data.zip. All files are ASCII files in DOS format. Unix users should use "unzip -a". In each file, the first row gives variable names. The following twelve data files are in kp-data.zip: singles.txt, couples.txt, coup1yng.txt, coup2yng.txt, coup1old.txt, and coup2old.txt contain data for 6 household types for sample 1. The six columns are: Food Expenditure Rent Expenditure Clothing Expenditure Household Operation Expenditure Personal Care Expenditure Sample Weight (inverse probability weights) singlesb.txt, couplesb.txt, coup1yngb.txt, coup2yngb.txt, coup1oldb.txt, and coup2oldb.txt contain data for 6 household types for sample 2. The five columns are: Food Expenditure Clothing Expenditure Household Operation Expenditure Personal Care Expenditure Sample Weight (inverse probability weights) Please direct all questions to me at pendakur [AT] sfu.ca