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The 1994 Study of American Families (SAF)


There are 17 ASCII documentation files which will take up to 200 KB of space compressed, expanding to about 971 KB after they are uncompressed.

Download safdocs.exe -- files in a DOS self-extracting zip format. Save the file to the directory of your choice on your computer, then run the file to uncompress it.

Contents of documentation package: one flowchart of survey instrument (.txt), 8 codebook files (.cbk), 8 control files (.lis).

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Users of these data are requested to cite them properly. Below is an example of the proper citation of this work. You should consult a proper style manual and modify the example to maintain consistency in punctuation and typeface. Please print this page to accompany your download!

Hauser, Robert M. and Robert D. Mare. Study of American Families, 1994 [computer file]. Madison, WI: Data and Program Library Service [distributor], 1997; <http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/Saf/index.html>; ().


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Last updated 14 November, 2005.

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