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    • Disability Analysis File (DAF) - Public Use File (PUF) Data Collection

    Metadata Updated: November 2, 2023

    The Disability Analysis File (DAF) - Public Use File (PUF), which contains a random 10 percent sample of beneficiaries included in the full DAF, is a set of files containing data related to program participation and benefits for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) beneficiaries between the ages of 18 and Full Retirement Age (FRA) who have received disability benefits in any month since 1996. It also includes data on selected beneficiaries aged 10 to 17 who have received benefits since 2005. The DAF contains data as early as January 1994 and many longitudinal variables are available for the full time period. Some variables are only available for a portion of the time range and information in the DAF documentation provides users with the range available for each variable. The PUF is sectioned into two core components, the Demographic component and the Annuals components, linkable using the unique identifier variable in each file. Please Note: the CSV files will not open completely in Excel due to Excel’s row limit.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons CCZero

    Collection

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    Downloads & Resources

    References

    https://www.ssa.gov/disabilityresearch/daf_puf.html
    https://www.ssa.gov/disabilityresearch/documents/daf_puf/DAF21-Public-Use-File-Documentation.pdf

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date November 2, 2023
    Data Update Frequency R/P1Y

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from SSA JSON

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date November 2, 2023
    Publisher Social Security Administration
    Maintainer
    Identifier US-GOV-SSA-1881
    Data Last Modified R/P1Y
    Public Access Level public
    Data Update Frequency R/P1Y
    Bureau Code 016:00
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Collection Metadata true
    Data Dictionary https://www.ssa.gov/disabilityresearch/daf_puf.html
    Harvest Object Id 2feb355e-47ef-410c-90df-8a5bc640f31c
    Harvest Source Id 9386406b-a7b0-4834-a267-0f912b6340db
    Harvest Source Title SSA JSON
    Homepage URL https://www.ssa.gov/disabilityresearch/daf_puf.html
    License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
    Program Code 016:000
    Related Documents https://www.ssa.gov/disabilityresearch/daf_puf.html, https://www.ssa.gov/disabilityresearch/documents/daf_puf/DAF21-Public-Use-File-Documentation.pdf
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash c24e126c8f1038845ad1e4585e54ceccc475cbf98b8b862eec9cff56dd22e5c7
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Temporal R/1994-01-01/P1Y

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