Michael P. Clements, "Individual Forecaster Perceptions of the Persistence of Shocks to GDP", Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 37, No. 3, 2022, pp. 640-656. All files are ASCII files in DOS format. They are zipped in the file mpc-files.zip. The data come from two sources. 1) The Real-Time Data Set for Macroeconomists. https://www.philadelphiafed.org/research-and-data/real-time-center/real-time-data/ These data are freely available. I have taken the data on quarterly vintages for quarterly real GDP and produced a CSV with some minimal changes. The resulting file ROUTPUTQvQd.csv contains real-time data from 1947:1 to 2018:2 (the rows), for vintages 1965:4 to 2018:3 (the columns). 2) The US Survey of Professional Forecasters (SPF) data. https://www.philadelphiafed.org/research-and-data/real-time-center/survey-of-professional-forecasters. These are are also from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, and also freely available. After some minimal changes to the corresponding US SPF files, the CSV files Individual_RGDP.csv and Individual_RGDP10.csv contain the quarterly and annual forecasts, and the 10-year ahead forecasts, respectively, by individual. The surveys covered are 68:4 to 2018:3. The columns of Individual_RGDP.csv are: year, quarter, individual identified, last period's RDGP, current to four-quarters ahead forecasts, and then two annual forecasts. The columns of Individual_RGDP10.csv are: year, quarter, individual identified, 10-year forecast. Full details of the survey data are provided by: https://www.philadelphiafed.org/-/media/research-and-data/real-time-center/survey-of-professional-forecasters/spf-documentation.pdf?la=en. These data are processed using a program (prog1.prg), written in the Gauss programming language, to produce the results recorded in the paper.