Dataset Section of SCF Research Group
The Dataset Section of the SCF Research Group covers issues such as variable definitions, weighting and imputation in the SCF datasets
The Chair of the Dataset Section is Suzanne Lindamood

• Forthcoming article on using the SCF, to appear in Vol. 41 Issue 1 of the Journal of Consumer Affairs.
• Retaining only households that appear in all 5 implicates (relevant when analyzing subsamples.) Example of Black subsample in 2004.
• Race/ethnic status in the 2004 SCF
• The respondent in married couple households --- note that the marital status variables do not necessarily identify the household situation -- in the following paper, we use the respondent's identification of somebody of the opposite sex as a spouse as the starting point for defining married couple households: Lindamood, S., & Hanna, S. D. (2005). Determinants of the wife being the financially knowledgeable spouse. Proceedings of the Academy of Financial Services. Note also Catherine Montalto's 1998 comment on the "switch" variable X8000
• Respondent versus head in the Survey of Consumer Finances
• Note on the age of the head variables (X14, X8022)
• Note on variable X7727 in 2004 SCF (posted August 4, 2006)
• Financial Counseling and Planning journal, v. 9(1): RII techniques with nonlinear estimation (Montalto & Yuh)
• Same sex couples in 1995 SCF (4/28/98), See also "The Investment Risk Tolerance of Same-Sex Couples," AFS Proceedings, 2004.
• The Respondent Switch Variable (4/28/98)
• Retaining Households Only When They Appear in Each of the Five Implicates (4/28/98)

Asked and Answered (Updated 8/1/97)
Multiple Imputation Issues
SCF Session at 1998 ACCI meeting (as of now, just has Catherine Montalto's comments
Census Occupational Codes

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