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1963 Survey of Changes in Family Finances Summary Description of 1962 Survey Results Survey of Financial Characteristics of Consumers Dorothy S. Projector Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol.51 (March 1964), pp. 285-293. Article (1.2 MB PDF) Documentation of 1962 and 1963 Survey Data Three types of technical documentation for the 1962 SFCC and the 1963 SFCC are available here: a combined codebook for both surveys, the individual questionnaires for each survey, and summary reports for each survey. Codebook for the 1962 Survey of Financial Characteristics of Consumers and the 1963 Survey of Changes in Family Finances The codebook contains a description of the variables in each survey and related information about the design of both surveys. Codebook (152 MB ASCII) Codebook last updated February 5, 1999 Questionnaires for the 1962 SFCC Form FRB1: This quesitonnaire was designed primarily for upper income families and was intended to be administered by an interviewer. Form FRB1 (785 KB PDF) Form FRB1a: This questionnaire is a self-administered form designed primarily to obtain balance sheet and income data from upper income families that completed form FRB1. Form FRB1a (1.1 MB PDF) Form FRB2: This questionnaire was designed primarily for middle and low income families and was intended to be administered by an interviewer. Form FRB2 (2.4 MB PDF) Questionnaires for the 1963 SCFF Form FRB2a: This questionnaire was used by the interviewer to collect information on changes in assets and liabilities for all families. Form 2a (1.7 MB PDF) Form FRB2b: This form was used by the inteviewer to record changes in the family unit. Form 2b (88 KB PDF) Summary Reports for the 1962 SFCC and the 1963 SCFF Survey of Financial Characteristics of Consumers Dorothy S. Projector and Gertrude S. Weiss, 1966 This book provides an overview of the 1962 survey and discusses in detail the size and composition of wealth in the United States in 1962. Book (12.3 MB PDF) Survey of Changes in Family Finances Dorothy S. Projector, 1968 This book provides an overview of the 1963 survey and discusses in detail the size and composition of saving in the US in 1963 in relation to income, net worth, and other characteristics. Book (23.5 MB PDF) 1962 and 1963 Survey Data Three versions of the survey data are available here. One version is a data set merging the final public data of both survey years. These data are available in both SAS and Stata formats. The second version is the pair of ASCII flatfiles that were the final versions of the two data sets released to the public at the completion of the surveys. Finally, there is an ASCII flatfile that is the earliest known surviving version of the 1962 survey with unimputed missing data. Two types of compression are available: GZIP and PKZIP. (See H.15 for software to uncompress PKZIP files.)
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