Survey of Consumer Finances Federal Reserve Code Book Documentation, 1986

摘要

The manual describes the set of recoded, edited, and imputed variables developed at the Federal Reserve Board for the 1986 wave of the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF). It documents the procedures used for editing the raw survey responses, the statistical methods used for imputing missing data, the construction of new variables from the original variables, and the addition of new variables which have been created by matching survey data with information from other sources. The manual also presents technical material on the survey's design and weights.