Retirement history longitudinal survey, 1979
By: principal investigator, Social Security Administration
Series: Retirement history longitudinal survey series; ICPSR -- 8344; ICPSR (Series) -- 8344
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Number of pages: 7352
Subjects: Public opinion; Older people; Attitudes; Longitudinal studies; Retirement
Description: This data collection represents part of a longitudinal study of the nature of retirement and of the transition to a retirement lifestyle. Data on the retirees or their surviving spouses include: level of educational attainment, present health condition, current employment status, work history, industry and occupational classification, wages, retirement plans, attitudes toward retirement, pension benefits, insurance coverage, contacts with relatives, living expenses, assets, debts, income, and basic demographic information. The data for the 1979 wave are contained in one file. There are 7,352 records of which 1,082 represent interviews with surviving spouses of the original respondents.
Notes: In 1969 the Office of Research and Statistics of the Social Security Administration designed a ten-year longitudinal study to investigate changes in the economic and social characteristics of men and unmarried women, 58-63 years old, as they approached and entered the retirement phase of their lives. A series of surveys of this group of people was conducted at two year intervals by the United States Census Bureau beginning in 1969 and ending in 1979. The first wave of this longitudinal survey (1969) was intended to gather data to serve as the baseline for future trend analysis on the sample.

Holding archive: National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging.

ICPSR data class: Class I.

Data collected: 1979.

United States.

7,352 records, a logical record length of 3,846 characters, 1,572 variables.

Irelan, Lola "Retirement History Study: Introduction", Washington: DHEW Publication No. (SSA) 73-11700, 1973.

Bixby, Leonore, and Lola M. Irelan, "The Social Security Administration Program of Retirement Research," Gerontologist, IX (Summer 1969).