Survey of Consumer Finances

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References to the Survey of Consumer Finances

The data package provides references to the main SCF files for the years 2016 and 2019. The package does not contain data, but rather is intended to be used with Metatab to build data extract packages.

References

• How Does Intergenerational Wealth Transmission Affect Wealth Concentration?
• The Dynamics of the Racial Wealth Gap

Feiveson and Sabelhaus calculate that 26% of wealth is due to transfers, because they assume that all of the transfer is invested at 3%. This is clearly nonsense

Documentation Links

• Codebook, 2016
• Codebook, 2019
• Extract file macro
• Homepage

Contacts

• Wrangler Eric Busboom, Civic Knowledge

References

• scf_public_16. Survey of consumer finances, full public dataset, 2016
• scf_extract_16. Survey of consumer finances, public extract, 2016
• scf_weights_16. Survey of consumer finances, replicate weights, 2016
• scf_public_19. Survey of consumer finances, full public dataset, 2019
• scf_extract_19. Survey of consumer finances, public extract, 2019
• scf_weights_19. Survey of consumer finances, replicate weights, 2019