Ron Shachar and Zvi Eckstein, "Correcting for Bias in Retrospective Data", Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 22, No. 3, 2007, pp. 657-675. The data are in 3 ASCII files (sedat1.txt--sedat3.txt), which are in DOS format. All three files are zipped in the file sedata.zip. Unix users should use "unzip -a". sedat1.txt - data for group 1 - couldn't vote prior to 1991 (65 observations) Column 1 - relative policy closeness to Labor in '91 Column 2 - perceived relative competence of the Labor candidate in '91 Column 3 - respondent's age: =1 for age 18-24, =2 for age 25-34, =3 for age 35-44, =4 for age 45-54, =5 for age 55-64, =6 for age 65+ Column 4 - respondent's origin: =1 if the respondent is of African or Asian (Sephardic) origin, =2 otherwise (note: the variable reported in the paper is 2 minus this value) Column 5 - years of schooling Column 6 - religious orthodoxy measure, from 1 to 4 (=1 for an Orthodox Jew, =4 for a secular person) Column 7 - vote in '91: =1 if voted for Labor, =0 if voted for Likud sedat2.txt - data for group 2 - couldn't vote prior to 1988 (55 observations) Columns 1,2 - relative policy closeness to Labor in '88 and '91 respectively Columns 3,4 - perceived relative competence of the Labor candidate in '88 and '91, respectively Column 5 - respondent's age: =1 for age 18-24, =2 for age 25-34, =3 for age 35-44, =4 for age 45-54, =5 for age 55-64, =6 for age 65+ Column 6 - respondent's origin: =1 if the respondent is of African or Asian (Sephardic) origin, =2 otherwise Column 7 - years of schooling Column 8 - religious orthodoxy measure, from 1 to 4 (=1 for an Orthodox Jew, =4 for a secular person) Column 9 - vote in '91: =1 if voted for Labor, =0 if voted for Likud Column 10 - vote in '88: =1 if voted for Labor, =0 if voted for Likud sedat3.txt - data for group 3 - had the right to vote prior to 1988 (293 observations) Columns 1,2,3 - relative policy closeness to Labor in '84, '88 and '91, respectively Columns 4,5,6 - perceived relative competence of the Labor candidate in '84, '88 and '91, respectively Column 7 - respondent's age: =1 for age 18-24, =2 for age 25-34, =3 for age 35-44, =4 for age 45-54, =5 for age 55-64, =6 for age 65+ Column 8 - respondent's origin: =1 if the respondent is of African or Asian (Sephardic) origin, =2 otherwise Column 9 - years of schooling Column 10 - religious orthodoxy measure, from 1 to 4 (=1 for an Orthodox Jew, =4 for a secular person) Column 11 - vote in '91: =1 if voted for Labor, =0 if voted for Likud Column 12 - vote in '88: =1 if voted for Labor, =0 if voted for Likud Column 13 - vote in '84: =1 if voted for Labor, =0 if voted for Likud