readme.oasdi

Data Group Name: oasdi (1937-2004)                                                     
                                                                             
Description:                                                                 
        Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Contribution Rates (%)  
        Employees & Employers, each                                          
                                                       
Data Source(s):                                                              
        Social Security Administration, "Automatic Increases for the Social    
        Security and Supplemental Security Income Programs" webpage            
        http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/ProgData/oasdiRates.html   
      
                                                                             
Comments:                                                                    
  The Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program           
  in the United States provides protection against the loss of earnings      
  due to retirement, death, or disability. The OASDI program consists of     
  two separate parts which pay monthly benefits to workers and their         
  families-Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) and Disability             
  Insurance (DI). Under OASI, monthly benefits are paid to retired           
  workers and their families and to survivors of deceased workers.           
  Under DI, monthly benefits are paid to disabled workers and their          
  families.                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                
Usage:  To look up values of these data for a set of key variable values
        (in SAS):

        a) In your SAS program, before your data step add:

           %include 'oasdi.fmt';

        b) set SUPERKEY to the combination of key variable values you
           want to look up.  See "SUPERKEY=" under key variable
           description below.

        c) use a formatted put function of SUPERKEY with the data series        
           format (See examples under "Usage" in detailed description of        
           each data series).                                                
                                                                             
Key vars:  Varname    Typ    Description                                       
           YEAR       Num    Year                                              
                             Min=1937   Max=2004                               
                                                                               
           SUPERKEY =YEAR;                                                     
                                                                               
Data series [summary]:                                                         
        Varname  Fmtname   Typ    Description                                  
        -------  -------   ---    -----------                                  
        OASDI    OASDI.    Num    Old-Age, Survivors & Disability Ins          
                                                                               
---------------------------- Data series OASDI   ----------------------------  
    Varname  Fmtname   Typ    Description                                      
    OASDI    OASDI.    Num    Old-Age, Survivors & Disability Ins              
                              Units=                                           
                              Min=1   Max=6.2   Mean=3.89823529                
                              N=68   N_Missing=0                               
                                                                               
    How missings handled:                                                      
    Comments:                                                                  
    Usage: myvar=put(superkey,OASDI.);                                         
                                                                               
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The CONTENTS Procedure

Data Set Name: SCRLIB.OASDI04                        Observations:         68
Member Type:   DATA                                  Variables:            2 
Engine:        V8                                    Indexes:              0 
Created:       14:55 Thursday, May 20, 2004          Observation Length:   16
Last Modified: 14:55 Thursday, May 20, 2004          Deleted Observations: 0 
Protection:                                          Compressed:           NO
Data Set Type:                                       Sorted:               NO
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           -----Alphabetic List of Variables and Attributes-----
 
#    Variable    Type    Len    Pos    Label
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2    OASDI       Num       8      8    Old-Age, Survivors & Disability Ins
1    YEAR        Num       8      0    Year