Federal Reserve Bulletin article (PDF) describing SCF'89
Questionnaire (PDF).
. use http://econ.bc.edu/scf/89/scf89x.dtaStata/SE is available on the Unix systems econ.bc.edu, ecsa200.bc.edu, and goanna.bc.edu, and may be acquired for desktop systems. You need at least 230 Mb RAM to work with this file, since it is 221 Mb on disk (3,501 variables, 15,715 observations). 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.
The downloadable SAS version is accessible from scf89x.xpt.gz, (7Mb, gzipped SAS Transport file).