Survey of Consumer Finances, 1997 [Canada]: Key File

The Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) is conducted annually to obtain work experience and income information from Canadian households. The Survey provides up-to-date information on the distribution and sources of income, before and after taxes, for families and individuals. With this file, users may identify specific family types, such as two-parent and lone-parent families. Information is also provided on earnings, transfers, and total income for the head and the spouse of the census family unit, as well as personal and labour-related characteristics. This reference year for this file is 1996. Commencing with the 1998 microdata files, annual cross-sectional income data will be sourced from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID). The purpose of this file is to enable users to combine the other Survey of Consumer Finances and Household Income, Facilities and Equipment files into custom-tailored household and sub-household units. This file consists of one record for each child and adult in the surveys' samples. Each key file record has the identification numbers for the correponding household, economic family, census family, and individual. Each record has the household (HH), economic family (EF), census family (CF), and the individual 15+ microdata tape identification numbers of the individual.

消费者财务调查（Survey of Consumer Finances，SCF）为年度调查，旨在收集加拿大家庭的工作经历与收入相关信息。该调查可提供家庭及个人税前、税后的收入分布与来源的最新数据。用户可通过本文件识别特定家庭类型，如双亲家庭与单亲家庭。文件还涵盖普查家庭单元的户主及其配偶的劳动报酬、转移支付与总收入信息，以及个人特征与劳动相关特征。本文件的参考年度为1996年。自1998年的微观数据文件起，年度横截面收入数据将取自劳动力与收入动态调查（Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics，SLID）。本文件的用途在于支持用户将其余的消费者财务调查、家庭收入、设施及设备文件整合为定制化的家庭与亚家庭单元。本文件为调查样本中的每名儿童与成人各生成一条记录。每条核心文件记录均包含对应家庭、经济家庭、普查家庭及个人的标识编号。每条记录均包含该个人对应的家庭（HH）、经济家庭（EF）、普查家庭（CF）以及15岁及以上个人微观数据磁带标识编号。