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Summary Descriptions of 1992 Survey Results
Changes in Family Finances from 1989 to 1992: Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances
Arthur B. Kennickell and Martha Starr-McCluer
Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 80 (October 1994), pp. 861-82.
Article (108 KB PDF) | Article (506 KB Postscript)
Expanded versions of the tables in the Bulletin article, in
Excel format
The most recent version of the tables based on the internal and public
data are located here.
SCF Chartbook
See the 2004 version for a description.
Household Sector Borrowing and the Burden of Debt
Glenn B. Canner, Arthur B. Kennickell, and Charles A. Luckett
Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 81 (April 1995), pp. 323-38.
Article (99.3 KB PDF)
| Article (742 KB Postscript)
Documentation of 1992 Survey Data
Four types of technical documentation for the 1992 SCF are available: the 1992 codebook, a questionnaire-style summary of the survey variables, the household enumeration folder (HEF), and the survey questionnaire. In addition, technical working papers on the survey methodology are available.
Codebook for the 1992 Survey of Consumer Finances
The codebook contains the text, variable names, and responses for the questions asked in the survey. Also provided are a brief summary of the technical aspects of the survey design, guidelines used in editing, and a list of the variables included in the public data set.
Codebook (603 KB ASCII)
Codebook last updated April 25, 2007
Questionnaire-Style Summary of the 1992 SCF Variables
This document is based on the questionnaire for the 1992 SCF. The questionnaire has been altered to include the SCF X-variable names of the final variables. The codes available in this document do not always include the full range used in the data set. The codebook is the appropriate place to turn for the fine details of the structure of the data. At key points during the administration of the interview, interviewers show the respondents a series of cards containing information relevant to framing or answering a question. Most of this information is displayed as part of the question text or response categories, but some is more general.
Questionnaire-style summary (6.0 MB PDF)
Showcards (306 KB PDF)
Document last updated March 1, 2001
Household Enumeration Folder (HEF)
The 1992 HEF contains forms used for the non-interview reports, the household listing, the first contact with the household, and the record of calls made on the household.
HEF (784 KB PDF)
Survey Questionnaire for the 1992 Survey of Consumer Finances
The 1992 survey data were collected using a paper questionnaire.
Questionnaire (488 KB PDF) | Questionnaire (1.5 MB Postscript)
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1992 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 H.15 for software to uncompress WINZIP files.)
Missing data have been imputed five times with a multiple imputation
technique. The
information is stored in five separate and internally coherent
imputation replicates (implicates). Thus, for the 3,906 families
interviewed for the survey, there are 19,530 records in the
data set. The codebook provides more detail on the structure of the
data set.
Full Public Data Set
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
153 MB of disk space and the resulting PROC COPY transport file will
require 351 MB of disk space. When uncompressed and imported as a V9.1.3
engine SAS data set, these files require 407 MB of disk space.
Main survey data: CPORT version (9.5 MB ZIP)
Main survey data: COPY/EXPORT version (16.2 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 set. Because the data set contains approximately 4200 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 142 MB of disk space.
Main survey data: Stata (9.9 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 sets. 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 774 MB of disk space.
Main survey data: ASCII (23.3 MB ZIP)
Map of variables: Excel (485 KB)
Map of variables: Tab-delimited (152 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 1992 dollars. The definitions of the summary variables are
given in a worksheet included with the program and more 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 the spreadsheet
file in unzipped form; the resulting XLS file will require
24.4 MB of disk space for the file that only includes data and 14.4 MB for
the file that includes the tabling wizard and data.
SAS program used to create summary variables
Extract of public data (3.3 MB GZIP)
Extract of public data with SCF tabling
wizard (2.1 MB ZIP)
SCF tabling wizard manual (48 KB PDF)
Data last updated April 25, 2007
Replicate Weight Files
For many purposes, one must consider the sampling error of SCF
estimates. However, because detailed information on the sample design
cannot be released, and because of the complexity of the SCF design,
users cannot apply some of the standard procedures for
variance estimation. A set of sample replicates has been created with
bootstrap techniques and analysis weights have been computed
independently for each replicate. Analysts may use these weights to
make approximate estimates of sampling variance. Replicate weights
corresponding to X42001 are available. See the
codebook for more details. When uncompressed and restored to a V9.1.3
engine SAS data set, each file requires 42.9 MB of disk space.
WARNING: Some browser versions will download these files in
unzipped form; the resulting
PROC CPORT transport file will require 36.3 MB of disk space, the resulting
PROC COPY transport file will require 41.2 MB of disk space, and the resulting Stata file will require 18.9 MB of disk space.
Replicate weights--X42001: CPORT version (21.6
MB ZIP)
Replicate weights--X42001: COPY/EXPORT version
(22.2 MB ZIP)
Replicate weights--X42001: Stata version
(9.9 MB ZIP)
Data last updated February 24, 2006