Adriaan R. Soetevent and Peter Kooreman, "A Discrete Choice Model with 
Social Interactions; with an Application to High School Teen Behavior",
Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 22, No. 3, 2007, pp. 599-624.

DATA SETS

The data come from the 1999-2000 version of the Dutch 'Nationaal 
Scholierenonderzoek' (National School Youth Survey, NSYS). For information
on the NSYS see:

http://www.dans.knaw.nl/nl/data/steinmetz_archief/title_n/12449/

We provide all 13994 orginal observations for the subset of variables
used in the paper in the data files exogr_1999.txt and endor_1999.txt.
These are both ASCII files in DOS format and contain one observation per
line; corresponding rows refer to the same observation. The variables
are in fixed format in columns separated by spaces.

The variables and a brief description of their meanings are
listed below in column order.

exogr_1999.txt:

 1  school number
 2  class number
 3  school type (1=VBO/IVBO, 2=VMBO, 3=MBO, 4=MAVO, 5=HAVO, 6=VWO)
 4  age
 5  gender (1=boy, 2=girl)
 6  nationality (1=Dutch)
 7  type of family (1=two parents)
 8  education level father (not used in final version)
 9  education level mother (not used in final version)
10  working time father (1=0, 2=1-12, 3=12-20, 4=20-32, 5=32-40, 6=>40 
    hours per week)
11  working time mother (1=0, 2=1-12, 3=12-20, 4=20-32, 5=32-40, 6=>40 
    hours per week)
12  religion (1=catholic, 2 or 3=protestant)

negative number: missing


endor_1999.txt:

 1  expenditures on smoking (guilders per week)
 2  expenditures on moped per week (guilders per month)
 3  expenditures on cell phone (guilders per month)
 4  asking parents for permission before purchase (1=never, 2=sometimes, 
    3=often, 4=always)
 5  truancy frequency (per month)
 6  smoking frequency (1=has never smoked, 2=smoked in the past, but not 
    last month, 3=smoked last month)
 
negative number: missing

PROGRAMS

Calculations were performed in Gauss, version 3.2.35, using the 
following programs:

dcsir_1.gau
dcsir_2a.gau
dcsir_2b.gau
dcsir_2c.gau
dcsir_2d.gau
dcalt_2d.gau
dcrho.gau

Each program starts with a comment explaining its purpose.

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Both data files are zipped in the file sk-data.zip. All program files are
zipped in the file sk-programs.zip. Unix users should use "unzip -a".