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2004 Survey of Consumer Finances
Survey Data
Two general types of data set are provided: first, the full public data set
is given in SAS, Stata, and ASCII formats; second, an extract file of
summary variables is provided in Excel format. All of these files
are provided in compressed form as WINZIP files. (See PKWARE website for
software to uncompress WINZIP files.)
Missing data in the survey have been imputed five times using a
multiple imputation technique. The information is stored in five
separate and internally coherent imputation replicates (implicates).
Thus, for the 4,522 families interviewed for the survey, there are
22,610 records in the data set. Three observations were deleted for
the public version of the data set for purposes of disclosure
avoidance; thus, there are 22,595 records in the public data set for
4,519 families. The codebook provides more detail on the structure of
the data set and the steps taken for disclosure avoidance.
Full Public Data set: SAS format
The full final survey data are available to the public in two SAS transport
formats that may be used with the current version of SAS.
(Help is available for importing these
files as SAS data sets.) One version is created using PROC CPORT; this
is the smaller of the two files. The second one is created using PROC
COPY with the EXPORT option; this file may be particularly convenient
for users who do not have access to SAS, but who do have some means of
translating the data set to another form using a software package that
does not support CPORT files.
WARNING: Some browser versions will download these
files in unzipped form; the resulting PROC CPORT transport file will require
219 MB of disk space and the resulting PROC COPY transport file will
require 553 MB of disk space. When uncompressed and imported as a V9.1.3
engine SAS data set, these files require 706 MB of disk space.
Main survey data: CPORT version (10.6 MB ZIP)
Main survey data: COPY/EXPORT version (20.6 MB
ZIP)
Data last updated March 2, 2007
Full Public Data Set: Stata format
A second version of the full public data set is given as a Stata data
file. Because the data set contains approximately 5000 variables,
users will need to use Stata SE if they wish to import all the variables. Users of
standard Stata will need to specify a subset of variables when using
the data set.
WARNING: Some browser versions will download these files in
unzipped form; the resulting Stata file will require 230 MB of disk
space.
Main survey data: Stata version (13.5 MB
ZIP)
Data last updated March 2, 2007
Full Public Data set: ASCII format
A third version of the full public data set is given in ASCII format.
The variables included have exactly the same values as those in the
SAS and Stata data set. The layout of the variables is given by a format file,
which is provided in Excel and tab-delimited formats. Note that
under certain operating systems the end of record marker will add one
character to the record length listed in the format file.
WARNING: Some browser versions will download these
files in unzipped form; the resulting ASCII file will require 1.19 GB of disk space.
Main survey data: ASCII (36.7 MB ZIP)
Map of variables: Excel (1.6 MB)
Map of variables: Tab-delimited (238 KB)
Data last updated March 2, 2007
Tabling Wizard and Extract of the Full Public Data Set
The extract file of the survey data is provided in Excel format. The
summary variables included correspond to those used in the analysis
reported in the Bulletin article available above. All dollar values
are given in 2004 dollars. Definitions of the summary variables are
included in the extract file. Detailed
defintions are provided in the SAS program used to create the summary
variables. Two versions of the extract are provided. One includes a
tabling wizard written in Visual Basic code; the
other does not. The tabling wizard allows users to calculate tables of
descriptive weighted statistics. Please refer to the manual
for instructions on how to use this wizard.
WARNING: Some browser versions will download these spreadsheet
files in unzipped form; the resulting XLS file will require
28 MB of disk space for the file that only includes data and 17.2 MB for
the file that includes the tabling wizard and data.
SAS program used to create summary variables: Detailed definitions (98 KB)
Extract of public data (3.9 MB ZIP)
Extract of public data with SCF tabling
wizard (2.6 MB ZIP)
SCF tabling wizard manual (51 KB PDF)
Data last updated May 15, 2006
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