[Fwd: SCF data release]

As most know, the "Survey of Consumer Finances" provides
insights into household finances (including "wealth" and
debt) and is conducted by the Federal Reserve:
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           W. Curtiss Priest, Director, CITS
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> Dear SCF User,
> Barring another huge snowfall in Washington tonight and tomorrow, the
> public version of the 2001 SCF data will be available tomorrow (February
> 28) on the Board's web site at
> http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/oss/oss2/2001/scf2001home.html
>
> Four noteworthy new items will be provided in addition to those that have
> appeared for past years of our data.  First, the main data file is now
> available as an ASCII flat file for those who do not have access to SAS.
> Second, the extract data file in Excel is also now available in a form that
> includes a Visual Basic macro that may be used to create a wide variety of
> tables from the extract data.  Third, a chartbook is provided that contains
> time series plots of ownership and mean and median holdings conditional on
> ownership of a wide variety of assets, liabilities, and other variables
> classified by a number of characteristics.  Finally, a new Stata routine is
> included in the 2001 SCF codebook that allows users to estimate models,
> such as regressions and probits, while accounting for the multiply-imputed
> nature of the data.
>
> As noted in "recent changes to data sets and documentation," a large number
> of minor corrections have been made to the earlier waves of data.  Minor
> corrections have also been made to the codebook.  All the replicate weight
> files have been replaced by a previously experimental version on which
> registered users were asked to comment earlier; for many purposes, these
> replicate weights will yield lower estimates of sampling error.
>
> We are grateful to users who have brought data errors to our attention.
> The SCF Team
>
>
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