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

    Metadata Updated: March 8, 2025

    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

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date March 8, 2025
    Data Update Frequency R/P1Y

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from SSA JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date March 8, 2025
    Publisher Social Security Administration
    Maintainer
    Identifier US-GOV-SSA-1881
    Data Last Modified R/P1Y
    Public Access Level non-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
    Harvest Object Id bb3da53c-eca2-4cab-bc08-d886eba8eca5
    Harvest Source Id 9386406b-a7b0-4834-a267-0f912b6340db
    Harvest Source Title SSA JSON
    License https://www.usa.gov/government-copyright
    Program Code 016:000
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 63db451c1bd393e17c5bdb8c08fa178b0d7995fd7117d4f2c6c0744f94f51c3d
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Temporal R/1994-01-01/P1Y

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