1986 Survey of Consumer Finances
Survey Data
The full final survey data are available to the public in three formats. The first set of data are made available in two types of transport file. These files may be used with the current version of SAS. (Help is available for importing these files as SAS datasets.) 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 dataset to another form using a software package that does not support CPORT files. Additionally, the full public data set is available as a Stata data set and in ASCII format. All of these types of files are provided in compressed form as WINZIP files. (See PKWARE website for software to uncompress WINZIP files.)
Full Public Data Set: SAS format
Edited and Imputed Version
Missing data have been singly imputed, and the codebook provides more
detail on the structure of the data set.
WARNING: Some browser versions will download these
files in unzipped form; the resulting PROC CPORT transport file will require
3.5 MB of disk space and the resulting PROC COPY transport file will
require 12.5 MB of disk space. When uncompressed and imported as a V6.12
engine SAS data set, these files require 13 MB of disk space.
Final survey data: CPORT version (1.3 MB ZIP)
Final survey data: COPY/EXPORT version (1.6 MB
ZIP)
Data last updated April 24, 2003
Unprocessed Version
The original data have not been imputed in this file. The codebook
provides more detail on the structure of the data set.
WARNING: Some browser versions will download these
files in unzipped form; the resulting PROC CPORT transport file will require
4.6 MB of disk space and the resulting PROC COPY transport file will
require 14.3 MB of disk space. When uncompressed and imported as a V6.12
engine SAS data set, these files require 15.4 MB of disk space.
Original survey data: CPORT version (673 KB ZIP)
Original survey data: COPY/EXPORT version (938 KB
ZIP)
Data last updated April 24, 2003
Full Public Data Set: Stata format
A second version of the full public data set is given in Stata format.
Edited and Imputed Version
WARNING: Some browser versions will download these
files in unzipped form; the resulting Stata file will require 2.9 MB of disk space.
Final survey data: Stata (978 KB ZIP)
Data last updated February 28, 2006
Unprocessed Version
WARNING: Some browser versions will download these
files in unzipped form; the resulting Stata file will require 3.6 MB of disk space.
Original survey data: Stata (560 KB ZIP)
Data last updated February 28, 2006
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 data set. The layout of the variables is given by a format file, which is provided in Excel and tab-delimited formats.
Edited and Imputed Version
WARNING: Some browser versions will download these
files in unzipped form; the resulting ASCII file will require 21.8 MB of disk space.
Final survey data: ASCII (1.6 MB ZIP)
Map of variables: Excel (68 KB)
Map of variables: Tab-delimited (11 KB)
Data last updated April 24, 2003
Unprocessed Version
WARNING: Some browser versions will download these
files in unzipped form; the resulting ASCII file will require 32.8 MB of disk space.
Original survey data: ASCII (976 KB ZIP)
Map of variables: Excel (68 KB)
Map of variables: Tab-delimited (12 KB)
Data last updated April 24, 2003
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