Retirement History Longitudinal Survey, 1969-1973, and Summary of Social Security Earnings: Merged Data (ICPSR 7739)

Version Date: Nov 4, 2005

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Principal Investigator(s):
Social Security Administration

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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07739.v1

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Summary

This data collection includes selected variables from the first three waves of the RETIREMENT HISTORY LONGITUDINAL SURVEY, conducted in 1969, 1971, and 1973 (ICPSR 7683, 7684, and 7685) as well as the Retirement History Longitudinal Survey Summary of Social Security Earnings, compiled from Social Security records. The Summary Earnings variables document reported earnings, wages and salary, self-employment earnings, and agricultural employment for the original respondent as well as first and second spouses. The earnings information is pertinent for the years 1951-1974. The variables selected from the first three waves of the Retirement History Longitudinal Survey include employment information concerning current and past employment, number of hours worked, number of hours off work, how the job was found, gross pay and time unit of pay, pension plans from current job and past jobs, types of pensions, and types of benefits. The subset also includes items pertaining to work history of the respondent, retirement plans, and, if retired, plans to work in the future. Demographic information collected about respondents, their spouses, and other members of the household includes race, sex, age, date of birth, marital status, education, occupation, income, benefits amount, number of children and children attending school, and household composition and relationship.

Citation

Social Security Administration. Retirement History Longitudinal Survey, 1969-1973, and Summary of Social Security Earnings: Merged Data. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005-11-04. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07739.v1

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Funding

United States Department of Health and Human Services. Administration on Aging

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1969 -- 1973

Data Collection Notes

  1. All records contain weights, which must be used in any analysis.

  2. Data from the 1969 wave were processed and reformatted by the Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development at Duke University.

  3. Conducted by the United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, and the Social Security Administration, Office of Research and Statistics.

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Sample

The first wave of surveys used the same sampling frame as that applied by the United States Bureau of the Census for the Current Population Survey (CPS). Sample members were persons who lived in households that had participated in CPS before February 1969. In subsequent waves, attempts were made to locate and reinterview original respondents. If the original respondent had died in the intervening period, a full interview was conducted with the surviving spouse, when applicable. To qualify as a surviving spouse, an individual must have been married to and living with the original respondent at the time of the previous interview and not have remarried.

Universe

All married men in the United States born between 1905-1911. Women born between 1905-1911 without husbands were also included in the universe.

Data Source

RETIREMENT HISTORY LONGITUDINAL SURVEYS, 1969, 1971, and 1973 (ICPSR 7683, 7684, and 7685), and Social Security records

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Original Release Date

1984-03-18

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • Social Security Administration. Retirement History Longitudinal Survey, 1969-1973, and Summary of Social Security Earnings: Merged Data. ICPSR07739-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1979. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07739.v1

2005-11-04 On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable, and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to reflect these additions.

1984-03-18 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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