This technical paper serves as an outline of the procedures followed to create household level income and expenditure data files in the statistical software package STATA. The datasets are used for the development of various Social Accounting Matrices for South Africa. A national data set, four regional data sets and nine provincial data sets were created; all based on the Income and Expenditure Survey (IES) of 1995. The STATA programming files (do-files) used are attached as a technical appendix to this paper.