Survey of Consumer Finances, 1961 University of Michigan. Survey Research Center. Economic Behavior Program 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 composition household expenditures household income housing income distribution job history mortgages national economy occupations personal debt personal finances prices savings RCMD.XI RCMD.XII NACDA.III ICPSR.IV.A 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 1961 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, investment preferences, and actual and expected purchases of cars and other major durables. In addition, the survey explored in detail the subject of housing, e.g., previous and present home ownership, value of respondent's dwelling, and mortgage information. The survey also gathered detailed information on jobs and job histories. 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. 1992-02-16 survey data 7441 10.3886/ICPSR07441.v2 personal interviews United States 1961 ICPSR metadata records are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/).