Title: Income of economic families, 1973

Series title: Survey of consumer finances, 1974

Alternative title: Economic families - 1973 income.

Principal investigator(s): Statistics Canada. Consumer Income and Expenditure Division

Producer: Ottawa, Ont.: Statistics Canada. Consumer Income and Expenditure Division (13M0002XDB)

Date of creation: 1998-02-10

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Distributor: Ottawa, Ont.: Statistics Canada. Data Liberation Initiative

Date of distribution: 1999-04-19

Access conditions/restrictions: University of Toronto faculty, students and staff, for academic research and teaching purposes only. See DLI licence.

Summary: Data gathered by SCF is used to produce cross-sectional income and work experience profiles of individuals, families and households. The five public use SCF files are: income of individuals aged 15 years and over (Product no. 13M0004XDB); income of census family units (Product no. 13M0001XDB); income of economic family units (Product no. 13M0002XDB); income of households (Product no. 64M0004XDB); and a link file (Product no. 13M0005XDB, 1987 and on only), permitting users to match records among the other four files. These fixed-format, flat files are composed of every record sampled in the survey, with each record containing a detailed array of demographic, labour and income variables. In order to protect the confidentiality of survey respondents, any information that could allow the identification of specific individuals, families or households is excluded.

The SCF data set includes the complete set of LFS variables, consisting of demographic characteristics for all individuals (including children regardless of age) and detailed labour force characteristics of all persons aged 15 years and over. To this core set of LFS variables, the SCF adds detailed information on 23 sources of income and income tax for the preceding calendar year (the income reference year), as well as summarized work experience information for the reference year.

From this consolidated SCF individual-level data set, cross-sectional summary statistics are produced for individuals, census families, economic families and households.

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Geographic coverage: Canada, provinces

Time period: reference week for the labour force data is April 22-29, 1974.

Date(s) of collection: 1974-04

Universe: individuals residing in private households in Canada. The only exclusions are persons who are resident in the Yukon and Northwest Territories, as well as all individuals who resided in institutions, on Indian reservations, or in military camps. Included as institutions are prisons, penitentiaries, jails, reformatories, mental hospitals, TB hospitals, sanatoriums, orphanages, and homes for the aged.

Data type: public use microdata file

Sample: stratified clustered sampling scheme, using the full 1974 Labour force survey sample

Unit of observation: economic family

Mode of data collection: self-completed questionnaire. Information on all household members was recorded on control cards and income questionnaires were left in households for completion by each member 14 years of age and over. Questionnaires were picked up by enumerators a few days later. In cases where income data had not been obtained, a further attempt to solicit this information was made by mail. Data on labour force characteristics of the surveyed population was obtained from the April 1974 Labour force survey.

Citation: Statistics Canada. Income of economic families, 1973 [computer file]. Ottawa, Ont.: Statistics Canada. Consumer Income and Expenditure Division [producer]; Statistics Canada. Data Liberation Initiative [distributor], 1998 (Survey of consumer finances, 1974)

Extent of file: 1 data files (25,924 logical records) & accompanying documentation

Notes: The sample consisted of 37,494 households. Of these, 4,230 were vacant, and another 2,783 could not be contacted or could not be interviewed for other reasons, including complete refusal of all information. From the occupied households, satisfactory income data were collected for 26,229 economic families and 47,314 individuals aged 14 and over who were in receipt of cash income in 1973. The microdata file contains 25,934 economic families conta8ining 81,447 individuals of whom 45,113 are income recipients. The discrepance between satisfactory schedules collected and the number of records on [sic] this file is accounted for by exclusion of 265 family units whose major source of income was military pay and allowances and 40 families with exceptionally high income. The families whose major source of income is military pay and allownaces are excluded from the file because military camps are not included in the sampe and as a result we receive only partial coverage of military families.

Related data: Other Survey of consumer finances surveys

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