GTOTAL = Total monthly expenditures in 1994 $Sucres at household level.

NPERS = Size of the household, i. e. number of members.

AEDU = Years of education of the head of the household.

AEXP = Years of potential work experience of the head of the household, calculated by the formula: (AGE - AEDU - 5*) *assuming education starts at age 5.

DSEX = Sex of the of the head of the household, 1=Male; 0=Female.

DREG = Region, 1=Urban; 0=Rural.

VFEXP = Frequency weights, i.e. multiplying each observation by the weight we arrive to the total national.

There are a total of 4548 observations at household level which can be projected to the national level of 2.6 million households by using the VFEXP weights.

The size of the file is approx. 106 KB, it is in ASCII format and can be opened directly using Excel and Lotus. However for easier statistical handling, I would recommend to delete a couple of lines at the begining of the file which contain information about its html format. In order to do that follow this procedure:

1) Edit the file using any text editor (WordPerfect or MS Word).
2) Delete the first 17 characters up to but not including the first variable name GTOTAL.
3) Delete the name of variables (Optional).
4) Save as ASCII or Text file.

Note that you can do the same by opening the file directly with Excel and then deleting the mentioned characters.