Description & Citation--Study No. 3601 | | | ICPSR Study No.: | 3601 |
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Persistent URL:
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| | | Title: | Survey of Consumer Finances, 1948 |
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| | | Principal Investigator(s): | Economic Behavior Program. Survey Research Center. University of Michigan |
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| | | Series: | Survey of Consumer Finances Series |
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| | | Bibliographic Citation: | Economic Behavior Program, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan. SURVEY OF CONSUMER FINANCES, 1948 [Computer file]. ICPSR version. Ann Arbor, MI: Institute for Social Research, Social Science Archive [producer], 1973. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2002. doi:10.3886/ICPSR03601 |
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| | | | Summary: | This data collection is one in a series of financial
surveys of consumers conducted annually since 1946. In a nationally
representative sample, the head of each spending unit (usually the
husband, the main earner, or the owner of the home) was
interviewed. The basic unit of reference in the study was the spending
unit, but some family data are also available. The questions in the
1948 survey covered the respondent's attitudes toward national
economic conditions and price activity, as well as the respondent's own
financial situation. Other questions examined the spending unit head's
occupation, and the nature and amount of the spending unit's income,
debts, liquid assets, changes in liquid assets, savings, and actual
and expected purchases of cars and other major durables. In addition,
questions were asked about housing and home ownership. The
subject of emphasis in this survey was the respondent's means of
saving, with questions on investment preference, amount of
present holdings in postal savings, credit unions, and savings
accounts, whether respondent had a regular plan for savings, and
attitudes regarding saving versus spending or investing. The 1948
survey included a separate questionnaire for farmers that contained
differing questions on sources of income. Personal data include number
of people in the spending unit, age, sex, and education of the head,
and the race and sex of the respondent. |
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| | | Subject Term(s): | automobile ownership, business conditions, consumer attitudes, consumer behavior, consumer expectations, consumer expenditures, debt, disposable income, durable goods, economic conditions, families, financial assets, financial balances, home ownership, household budgets, household expenditures, household income, housing, income distribution, investments, mortgages, national economy, occupations, personal debt, personal finances, post-World War II period, prices, savings |
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| | | Geographic Coverage: | United States |
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| | | Time Period: | 1948 |
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| | | Date(s) of Collection: | January 1948 - March 1948 |
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| | | Universe: | The population of the United States. |
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| | | Data Type: | survey data |
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| | | Data Collection Notes: | (1) Most of the data in the study pertain to a
spending unit. For some variables, information from related spending
units was combined to provide data on a family basis. The user should
refer to the instructions and worksheets included with the codebook to
ascertain the procedures followed in these computations. (2) The
majority of the variables in the study represent information obtained
through direct questioning of the respondent. Some variables, however,
are the result of computations done for each interview, e.g., amount
saved, total indebtedness, estimated income taxes, and the relation of
these amounts to income. (3) In some instances, where important
information was missing, assigned values were given. The assigned
values were based on other known characteristics of the spending unit
and occur only in a small proportion of the cases. Those variables
containing assigned information are preceded by a lead variable,
indicating for each case whether the value in the following variable
is assigned or not. (4) The codebook is provided by ICPSR as a
Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed
by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader
software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to
obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web
site. |
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| | | | Sample: | The respondents interviewed were drawn from a national
sample of dwelling units. The dwelling units falling in the sample
were chosen by area probability sampling to represent the United
States population. |
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| | | Data Source: | personal interviews |
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| | | | Note: | A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the
summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the
file manifest. |
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| | | Original ICPSR Release: | 1984-05-11 |
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| | | Dataset(s): | - DS1: Survey of Consumer Finances, 1948
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