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General Survey Description of the Survey
After a series of pilot surveys carried out in 1961-62 jointly with Isco, in 1966 the Bank of Italy started to publish and comment on a regular basis the results of the Survey of Households’ Income and Wealth (SHIW). Twenty-six surveys have been conducted since then, yearly until 1987 (except for 1985) and every two years thereafter. The interviews for the twenty-seventh survey, relative to 1998, have been scheduled in 1999.
Availability (*)
On fmrisc.bc.edu are available the data set in Stata format starting from the 1989 till 1998 waves.
The 1989-1995 data set are stored in the /res0/resdata/bankitalia.
The 1998 wave is stored in /res5/italia.
The Panel files from 1989 to 1995 are stored
in /res0/resdata/bankitalia/panel.
(*) The availability of the data set and the do files used to convert
the original files into the Stata format have been available through IGIER
Research Centre.
Format
All the data set is in Stata (.dta) and the files are stored in a compressed format. To access the files you need to have an account on the fmrisc. In order to decompress the files it is sufficient to use the following instruction into the Unix system:
gzip -vdc [path to reach the directory where the file is stored] [name of the file].dta.gz > [new file name].dta
Example:
If the file is stored in the the 1998
wave:
gzip -vdc /res5/italia/filename.dta.gz
> filename.dta
Illustrative Material
Decription of the files for the 1989-1995 waves is included here.
Description of the files for the 1998 wave is included here.