Relative Distribution Methods in the Social Sciences: Data files (Excel)

This directory contains Microsoft Excel system files representing the aggregated data sets analyzed in the book Relative Distribution Methods in the Social Sciences, by Mark S. Handcock and Martina Morris, Springer-Verlag and Sons, New York, 1999.

The files are versions of Excel Version 4 system files, which have the suffix ".xls". They can be read into Excel directly and into other packages that can read Excel files.

The data:

Original NLS cohort data (Excel file)
Recent NLS cohort dat (Excel file)
Description of data sources, and further information about the data sets, can be found in the book.