Survey of Consumer Finances, 1964 (ICPSR 7444)
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University of Michigan. Survey Research Center. Economic Behavior Program
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07444.v3
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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 family unit was interviewed. The 1964 data are based on the family unit. The questions in the 1964 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 family unit head's occupation, and the nature and amount of the family'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 savings, assets, and stock ownership. Personal data include age and education of head, household composition, and occupation.
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The codebook produced and released by ICPSR was previously available in paper format only. It was converted to Portable Document Format (PDF), with no manual editing, in January 2002 as part of ICPSR's electronic document conversion project. The document may not be completely searchable. No additional updating of this collection was performed (pagination, missing pages, etc.).
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The sample was made up of a national cross-section of family units.
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The population of the United States.
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personal interviews
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Interviewing for the Survey of Consumer Finances was conducted in January through March of 1964. These interviews began less than 2 months after the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy, on November 22, 1963. Variables 601 through 620 of this data file contain responses to questions asked about those historical events and the effects they may have on domestic affairs, income taxes, social welfare, farm problems, labor problems, racial discrimination, economic problems, foreign affairs, peace, and national defense. Some of these questions include:
- How would you rate Kennedy as President?
- What would you personally feel are the most important problems the new President and Congress would try to take care of?
- How do you think the way things are going in the world today -- I mean the Cold War and our relations with Russia -- are affecting business conditions here at home? Do you think they make for good times, or bad times or what?
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1984-05-11
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2021-10-21 Masked variable V437 for disclosure issues.
2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:- University of Michigan. Survey Research Center. Economic Behavior Program. Survey of Consumer Finances, 1964. ICPSR07444-v3. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2021-10-21. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07444.v3
1984-05-11 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
- Performed consistency checks.
- Standardized missing values.
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