readme.oasi

Data Group Name: oasi (1937-2004)                                                       
                                                                               
Description:                                                                   
        Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) 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      
                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                                
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 'oasi.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                                  
        -------  -------   ---    -----------                                  
        OASIRATE OASIRATE. Num    OASI Contribution: Employee & Employer       
                                                                               
---------------------------- Data series OASIRATE----------------------------  
    Varname  Fmtname   Typ    Description                                      
    OASIRATE OASIRATE. Num    OASI Contribution: Employee & Employer           
                              Units=                                           
                              Min=1   Max=5.6   Mean=3.48867647                
                              N=68   N_Missing=0                               
                                                                               
    How missings handled:                                                      
    Comments:                                                                  
    Usage: myvar=put(superkey,OASIRATE.);                                      
                                                                               
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The CONTENTS Procedure

Data Set Name: SCRLIB.OASI04                         Observations:         68
Member Type:   DATA                                  Variables:            2 
Engine:        V8                                    Indexes:              0 
Created:       14:54 Thursday, May 20, 2004          Observation Length:   16
Last Modified: 14:54 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    OASIRATE    Num       8      8    OASI Contribution: Employee & Employer
1    YEAR        Num       8      0    Year