Survey of Consumer Finances, 1987 [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. <p>This reference year for this file is 1986.</p> <p>Commencing with the 1998 microdata files, annual cross-sectional income data will be sourced from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID).</p> <p>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.</p>