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Joseph Nathan Cohen

Sociologist at Queens College in the City University of New York

Software

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scf

scf

Software

An R package for the proper analysis of Survey of Consumer Finances public-use microdata.

Package

Version

1.0.11

Language

R

Source

CRAN

Since

2025

Cite

Cohen, J. N. (2025). scf: Tools for the Survey of Consumer Finances. R package version 1.0.11.

Overview

The Survey of Consumer Finances is the richest picture of American household wealth available, but its data can be complicated to analyze. This package simplifies the analysis of this data set by wrapping the operations of proper analysis into easy-to-use functions.

Installation

From CRAN: install.packages("scf"). Requires R ≥ 3.6.

Example use

library(scf)

scf2022 <- scf_load(2022)
scf_median(scf2022, ~networth)