Survey of Consumer Finances, 1948

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Principal Investigator(s): Economic Behavior Program. Survey Research Center. University of Michigan

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... (view details)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03601.v1

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