Title: Income of economic families, 1992. Revised weights - 1991 census based.

Series title: Survey of consumer finances, 1993

Alternative title: Economic families - 1992 income.

Principal investigator(s): Statistics Canada. Household Surveys Division

Producer: Ottawa, Ont.: Statistics Canada. Household Surveys Division (13M0002XDB)

Date of creation: 1996-07-12

Funding agency:

Collector:

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, selected census metropolitan areas (CMAs)

Time period: reference year is 1992; reference week is April 19-24, 1993

Date(s) of collection: 1993-04 to 1993-05

Universe: the sample is designed to represent approximately 98% of the civilian non-institutional population of persons in Canada 15 years of age and over. Excluded from this frame are persons residing in the Yukon and Northwest territories, in institutions, on Indian reserves and military camps. Included as institutions are prisons, penitentiaries, jails, reformatories, mental hospitals, TB hospitals, sanatoriums, orphanages, and homes for the aged. In addition, families whose major source of income is military pay and allowances are excluded from the sample and, therefore, we have only partial coverage of military families.

Data type: public use microdata file

Sample: multi-stage stratified clustered probability sample

Unit of observation: economic family

Mode of data collection: telephone interview or personal interview in respondent's home.

Citation: Statistics Canada. Income of economic families, 1992 [computer file]. Revised weights - 1991 census based. Ottawa, Ont.: Statistics Canada. Household Surveys Division [producer]; Statistics Canada. Data Liberation Initiative [distributor], 1996 (Survey of consumer finances, 1993)

Extent of file: 1 data files (40,007 logical records) & accompanying documentation

Notes:

Beginning with the 1992 income filem additional low income status variables have been included. They are:

• Low Income Cut-off (LICO 1992 base);
• Low Income After Tax Cut-off (LICO-IAT 1992 base).