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1998 Survey of Consumer Finances
Survey Data
Two general types of data set are provided:
Full Public Data: Full data sets of all SCF variables
Summary Extract Data including Tabling Wizard: Excel format data set of summary variables used in the Bulletin article- Excel data set with Tabling Wizard, a menu-based tool to
easily calculate basic statistics of summary variables such
as the statistics found in the
SCF Bulletin article
- Excel data set without Tabling Wizard, this
data set can be imported into most statistical software packages
All of these files are provided in compressed form as WINZIP files.
(See PKWARE website for
software to uncompress WINZIP files.)
Missing data in the survey have been imputed five times using a
multiple imputation technique. The information is stored in five
separate and internally coherent imputation replicates (implicates).
Thus, for the 4,309 families interviewed for the survey, there are
21,545 records in the data set. Four observations were deleted for
the public version of the data set for purposes of disclosure
avoidance; thus, there are 21,525 records in the public data set for
4,305 families. The codebook provides more detail on the structure of
the data set and the steps taken for disclosure avoidance.
Full Public Data Set: SAS format
The full final survey data are available to the public in two SAS transport
formats that may be used with the current version of SAS.
(Help is available for importing these
files as SAS data sets.) 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 data set to another form using a software package that
does not support CPORT files.
WARNING: Some browser versions will download these
files in unzipped form; the resulting PROC CPORT transport file will require
189 MB of disk space and the resulting PROC COPY transport file will
require 438 MB of disk space. When uncompressed and imported as a V9.1.3
engine SAS data set, these files require 589 MB of disk space.
Main survey data: CPORT version (8.8 MB ZIP)
Main survey data: COPY/EXPORT version (16.1 MB ZIP)
Data last updated October 22, 2008
Full Public Data Set: Stata format
A second version of the full public data set is given as a Stata data
set. Because the data set contains approximately 5000 variables, users
will need to use Stata SE if they wish to import all the variables. Users of
standard Stata will need to specify a subset of variables when using
the data set.
WARNING: Some browser versions will download these files in
unzipped form; the resulting Stata file will require 202 MB of disk
space.
Main survey data: Stata (11.5 MB ZIP)
Data last updated October 22, 2008
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 and Stata data set. The layout of the variables is given by a format file,
which is provided in Excel and tab-delimited formats. Note that
under certain operating systems the end of record marker will add one
character to the record length listed in the format file.
WARNING: Some browser versions will download these
files in unzipped form; the resulting ASCII file will require 1.02 GB of disk space.
Main survey data: ASCII (30.1 MB ZIP)
Map of variables: Excel (607 KB)
Map of variables: Tab-delimited (198 KB)
Data last updated October 22, 2008
Tabling Wizard and Extract of the Full Public Data Set
The extract file of the survey data is provided in Excel format. The
summary variables included correspond to those used in the analysis
reported in the Bulletin article available above. All dollar values
are given in 1998 dollars. Definitions of the summary variables are
included in the extract file. Detailed
defintions are provided in the SAS program used to create the summary
variables. Two versions of the extract are
provided. One includes a tabling wizard written with Visual Basic code;
the other does not. The tabling wizard allows users to calculate
tables of descriptive weighted statistics. Please refer to the
manual for instructions on how to use this wizard.
WARNING: Some browser versions will download these spreadsheet
files in unzipped form; the resulting XLS file will require
25.2 MB of disk space for the file that only includes data and 25.3 MB for
the file that includes the tabling wizard and data.
SAS program used to create summary variables: Detailed definitions (98 KB)
Extract of public data (2.9 MB ZIP)
Extract of public data with SCF tabling wizard (3.4 MB ZIP) Not currently compatible with Excel 2007
SCF tabling wizard manual (62.8 KB PDF)
Data last updated March 31, 2009
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