Use the micro data from the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey with R.
This repository contains pieces of codes for:
- downloading the HFCS micro-data (provided that the user has requested the access to the data, following the procedure described here) - this feature is in development, so far you are stuck with downloading manually the zip files on ECB's website.
- transferring ASCII or Stata files in R format, in order to use the data with R.
- Computing the figures provided by the European Central Bank in the statistical tables), with or without standard errors. Calculating standard errors requires a significant additional amount of time; therefore users interested in calculating only the point estimates may gain some time in using the script
2. Compute statistical tables (without SEs).R.