Codebook

Federal Reserve Bulletin article

Questionnaire-Style Summary of the 2001 SCF CAPI Instrument . This document is based on the questionnaire for the 1992 SCF, the last of the surveys for which a paper questionnaire was used. The questionnaire has been altered to include changes to the instrument since 1992, and each variable in the final dataset has been labeled with its corresponding SCF X-variable number.In most cases, the question skip instructions have not been updated. Other relatively small inconsistencies with the actual CAPI instrument also remain. The Codebook is the appropriate place to turn for the fine details of the structure of the data, the exact text of the questions asked, and the full list of official codes. Nevertheless, the questionnaire format of this document may be useful for understanding the overall organization of the survey. 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.

2001 SCF Chartbook The SCF chartbook contains time series charts using triennial SCF data covering the period 1989 to 2001. The variables included are ones that appeared in a set of the tables in the Bulletin article. For each variable and classification group, the charts show the percent of families in the group who have the item and the median and mean amounts of holdings for those who have any. All dollar estimates are given in 2001 dollars. The 2001 SCF chartbook is provided also in Excel format.

Household Information Packet (HIP) for AP cases

Household Information Packet (HIP) for LS cases The 2001 HIP 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.

List of variables (Part 1)

List of variables (Part 2)

Stata/SE format (access over the web):

use http://fmwww.bc.edu/ec-p/data/scf/01/scf2001x.dta   214 Mb

SAS Transport format (in zipped form):

scf2001x.zip   32 Mb

Codebook

Federal Reserve Bulletin article

Questionnaire-Style Summary of the 1998 SCF CAPI Instrument . This document is based on the questionnaire for the 1992 SCF, the last of the surveys for which a paper questionnaire was used. The questionnaire has been altered to include changes to the instrument since 1992, and each variable in the final dataset has been labeled with its corresponding SCF X-variable number.

List of variables (Part 1)

List of variables (Part 2)

Stata/SE format (access over the web):

use http://fmwww.bc.edu/ec-p/data/scf/98/scf98x.dta   445 Mb

The original dataset has also been divided into three segments for Intercooled Stata use to cope with the 2048-variable limit on Intercooled Stata datafiles. The SCF variable y1, public-use family ID, has been placed in each segment of the data to facilitate merging. Each segment has 21,525 cases.

They are accessible over the web (within the BC network) via:

use http://fmwww.bc.edu/ec-p/data/scf/98/scf98-?.dta

where ?=(1,2,3). Be warned that these files are, respectively, 95 Mb, 72 Mb, and 46 Mb, and Stata must be given at least as much RAM as the file size to read the files. Use of Stat/Transfer to extract a subset of the data is highly recommended.

scf98x.xpt.gz   15 Mb

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Federal Reserve Bulletin article describing SCF'95

Questionnaire

Stata/SE format (access over the web):

use http://fmwww.bc.edu/ec-p/data/scf/95/scf95x.dta   429 Mb

List of variables (Part 1)

List of variables (Part 2)

Stata/SE is available on various servers on campus and for faculty members by request from Research Services. You need at least 500 Mb RAM to work with this file. You may use Stata/SE or Stat/Transfer on one of the Unix systems to create a subset file that may be used with standard (Intercooled) Stata, and will require much less RAM.

SAS Transport format (in gzipped form):

scf95x.xpt.gz   15 Mb

Codebook: most easily searched with BBEdit or BBEdit Lite

Stata/SE format (access over the web):

use http://fmwww.bc.edu/ec-p/data/scf/92/scf92.dta   142 Mb updated 2 March 2007

Stata/SE is available on various servers on campus and for faculty members by request from Research Services. You need at least 340 Mb RAM to work with this file. You may use Stata/SE or Stat/Transfer on one of the Unix systems to create a subset file that may be used with standard (Intercooled) Stata, and will require much less RAM.

SAS Transport format (in gzipped form):

scf92.zip   9 Mb (updated 2 March 2007)

Codebook: most easily searched with BBEdit or BBEdit Lite

Questionnaire

List of variables

Stata/SE format (access over the web):

use http://fmwww.bc.edu/ec-p/data/scf/89p/scxf89px.dta   84 Mb

The original dataset has also been divided into three segments for Intercooled Stata use to cope with the 2048-variable limit on Intercooled Stata datafiles. The SCF variable y1, public-use family ID, has been placed in each segment of the data to facilitate merging.

They are accessible over the web (within the BC network) via:

. use http://fmwww.bc.edu/ec-p/data/scf/89p/p89p?.dta

where ?=(1,2,3). Be warned that these files are, respectively, 15 Mb, 13 Mb, and 9 Mb, and Stata must be given at least as much RAM as the file size to read the files. Use of Stat/Transfer to extract a subset of the data is highly recommended.

SAS Transport format (in gzipped form):

scf89px.xpt.gz   4 Mb

Codebook: most easily searched with BBEdit or BBEdit Lite

Stata/SE format (access over the web):

use http://fmwww.bc.edu/ec-p/data/scf/89/scf89.dta   73 Mb (updated 2 March 2007)

Stata/SE is available on various servers on campus and for faculty members by request from Research Services. You need at least 100 Mb RAM to work with this file. You may use Stata/SE or Stat/Transfer on one of the Unix systems to create a subset file that may be used with standard (Intercooled) Stata, and will require much less RAM.

SAS Transport format (in gzipped form):

scf89.zip   4 Mb (updated 2 March 2007)

Codebook: most easily searched with BBEdit or BBEdit Lite

Stata format (access over the web):

use http://fmwww.bc.edu/ec-p/data/scf/86/scf86b.dta   3 Mb

SAS Transport format (in zipped form):

scf86b.zip   2 Mb

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Stata format (access over the web):

use http://fmwww.bc.edu/ec-p/data/scf/83/scf83b.dta   12 Mb

SAS Transport format (in zipped form):

scf83b.zip   4 Mb

Last modified: 10 Feb 2009