To help you test your programs before submitting them to our system, we have prepared two artificial samples.  Please download these samples and use them to run your STATA jobs on your PC in order to check for correct syntax.

By doing so, you will save time and help us avoid system congestion.  The "artificial samples" contain a sub-sample of the US00 dataset consisting of 1000 households (us00samphh) and their respective household members (us00samppp) as well as a sub-sample of IT dataset consisting of 240 households (it00samphh) and their respective household members (it00samppp)  . 
The sub-sample contains all LIS variables but does not necessarily contain observations for each category within a variable. Pay attention to this aspect when moving from program testing on the artificial sample to program running on the real data.
Download the one you need!  (IMPORTANT NOTE: You will have better results using Microsoft Explorer when downloading these files directly to your computer). 

•     us00samphh.dta 
•     us00samppp.dta
•     it00samphh.dta
•     it00samppp.dta