Other Data in the EML

We also maintain some permanently mounted databases on CD ROM, and share data with the UC DATA/LIBRARY CENSUS CD ROM project and the Haas School of Business.

1. CD ROMs permanently mounted on EML include:
   • Current Population Survey (CPS) Labor Extracts, in Stata format (location is /cdroms/cps). These are extracts made by Dan Feenberg at the National Bureau of Economic Research. The full CPS is available from the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Extracts are downloadable via the web from http://www.bls.census.gov/cps/cpsmain.htm, or from LABSTAT at the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

     CPS is a monthly survey of about 50,000 households conducted by the Bureau of the Census for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It has been conducted for more than fifty years. CPS is the primary source of information on the labor force characteristics of the U.S. population. Information includes employment, unemployment, earnings, hours of work, and other indicators. They are available by a variety of demographic characteristics, including age, sex, race, marital status, and education, as well as by occupation, industry, and class of worker.

   If you have a CD ROM that you would like to have mounted, we will be happy to provide that service to you.

2. NFS exported data sets include:
   • Library CD ROM project, in cooperation with UC DATA (mostly Census data). Roughly 350 CD ROMs of publicly accessible data (and a handful of proprietary ones). Check the web site and be totally impressed. Through NFS, all of these CD ROMs are mounted locally (location is /uccds/disk#, where disk# is the number of CD ROM you wish to access).

     To find the CD ROM disk#, point Netscape at the URL

     http://www.lib/GSSI/uc_cdrom.html
     

     See also the online help file, ``help uccds''.

   • Center for Research in Securities Prices (CRSP) data exported from Haas to EML (location is /data/crsp).

   • CompuStat data exported from Haas to EML (location is /data/compustat).

3. The EML is the repository of Lorna Greening's integrated Consumer Expenditure Survey data sets (1980-1994). Because of the large size of this dataset, we are making it available from our anonymous FTP server rather than from the EML's production fileserver. Point your web browser or do an anonymous FTP to

               ftp://elsa.berkeley.edu/pub/ices
   

   The data are available as standard ascii files or as Unix SAS datasets. See ``help ices'' for details. The BLS has made available online documentation to us for all fourteen years.

4. The EML is also the repository of David Card's and Ken Chay's Census extracts of the 5% sample for 1980 and 1990. The data are available as Unix SAS datasets. Point your web browser or do an anonymous FTP to

               ftp://esla.berkeley.edu/pub/census
   

   David Card has also made available the raw 1970 census data along with sample SAS extraction programs, and the STF3C files for the 1990 census.