M. Grazia Pittau and Roberto Zelli, "Empirical Evidence of Income
Dynamics Across EU Regions", Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 21,
2006, pp. 605-628.

The data are in two ASCII files in DOS format, gdp.txt and pop.txt. Columns
are separated by tabs and are of variable width. These two files are zipped
in the file pz-data.zip. Unix users should use "unzip -a".

Brief description of the data:

The data set is based on the database of CRENOS, Center for North South
Economic research, (www.crenos.unica.it). 

Variables are: 

(1) Annual per capita GDP at 1990 constant prices converted to Purchasing
Power Standards (PPS); 

(2) Total population/1000 (annual average),
    
for 110 Nomenclature of the Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) regions. 

Different digits of the NUTS classification have been selected for each
country. The territorial units selected are the following 110 units: 

  NUTS-0 (countries) for Denmark, Luxemburg and Ireland; 

  NUTS-1 for Belgium (3 Regions), Germany (11 Lander), Netherland (4
  Landsdelen) and United Kingdom (9 Government Office Regions and 3
  Countries); 

  NUTS-2 for Italy (20 Regioni), France (22 Regions), Spain (17 Comunitated
  Autonomas), Portugal (5 Comissaoes de coordenacao regional), Greece (13
  Development Regions). 

The S-plus functions used to extract and analyse the data are available from
the authors upon request.

M.Grazia Pittau 
grazia.pittau [AT] uniroma1.it

Roberto Zelli
roberto.zelli [AT] uniroma1.it