Survey of Consumer Finances, 1998 [Canada]: Household Income Facilities and Equipment

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 1997. Commencing with the 1998 microdata files, annual cross-sectional income data will be sourced from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID). Beginning with the 1998 HIFE, only household income data was collected; the facilities and equipment data is not included in this file. It is now collected in the Survey of Household Spending (SHS) PUMF. Due to an error in this file, facilities and household data was recorded as '0' = 'No'. These variables should be recoded as sysmiss.