SCF Users Group

The Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) Users Group is an informal group of researchers using the various SCF datasets. It has no formal relationship with the Federal Reserve Board or any other organization that funds the Surveys of Consumer Finance

The chair of the SCF Users Group is Sherman Hanna

Note on variable X7727 in 2004 SCF (posted August 4, 2006)

Dataset Section

 

Other Sections of the SCF Research Group (Statistics, Investment, Credit, Economics, Retirement Planning) 

Federal Reserve Board home page for SCF datasets
FAQ


Special Sessions at ACCI and other meetings

Suzanne Lindamood, Sherman D. Hanna, and Lan Bi. (2007). Using the survey of consumer finances: Methodological considerations and issues, Journal of Consumer Affairs

plus comments by Hogart, Getter, and Huston.

Federal Reserve Board .

Articles using the SCF dataset

Journal Compendium and Other Publishing Resources

Racial/ethnic status in the 2004 SCF

Census and Other Reports ..

Other Finance Data Web Sites (Ohio State College of Business)

  Graph of median net worth by age, 1989-2004 (pdf)  
July 31, 2006: no IRB review needed for analysis of SCF datasets   APA suggestions on citing web documents

Sherman Hanna's Web Pages