Juan J. Dolado, Jesus Gonzalo, and Laura Mayoral "Long range dependence in
Spanish political opinion poll data", Journal of Applied Econometrics,
Vol. 18, No. 2, 2003, pp. 137-155.

The data are in five separate files, each of them an ASCII file in DOS
format, which are zipped in the file dgmdata.zip. Unix users should use
"unzip -a".

The ASCII data file contains the percentage support of the five main Spanish
political parties and represents the answer to the following question:
"Which party would you vote for if there were to be a Parliamentary Election
tomorrow?". It has been obtained from the Centro de Investigaciones
Sociológicas (CIS).  The format is Tx1, and the sample period is 1978:3 to
1999:4. Thus, there are 87 quarterly observations.


pce.data   contains the data corresponding to percertage support for the
           Communist party, 'Partido Comunista Español"

psoe.data  contains the data corresponding to percertage support for the
           Socialist party, 'Partido Socialista Obrero Español".

appp.data  contains the data corresponding to percertage support for the
           Consevative party, 'Partido Popular'

ciu.data   contains the data corresponding to percertage support for the
           Catalan Nationalistic party 'Convergencia i Unio'.

pnv.data   contains the data corresponding to percertage support for the
           Basque Country Nationalistic party 'Partido Nacionalista Vasco'.


If you have any questions or problems, please contact Laura Mayoral
(laura.mayoral@uab.es).

 Laura Mayoral
 Dept. of Economics
 Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona
 08093 Bellaterra (Barcelon)
 Spain