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Earnings Public-Use File - 2006

Metadata Updated: February 1, 2023

Social Security is a social insurance program that pays benefits to insured workers and eligible family members based on covered earnings. The 2006 Earnings Public-Use File (EPUF) contains administrative earnings data (related to the Social Security program) and limited demographic data for more than 4 million individuals. The EPUF sample size is larger than any of SSA's other public-use microdata files containing administrative earnings data.

Access & Use Information

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

Downloads & Resources

References

https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/microdata/epuf/index.html
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/microdata/epuf/epuf_dictionary.pdf
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v71n4/v71n4p33.html
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/rsnotes/rsn2012-01.html

Dates

Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
Metadata Updated Date February 1, 2023

Metadata Source

Harvested from SSA JSON

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
Metadata Updated Date February 1, 2023
Publisher Social Security Administration
Maintainer
Identifier US-GOV-SSA-336
Data Last Modified 2012-09-07
Public Access Level public
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
Data Dictionary https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/microdata/epuf/epuf_dictionary.pdf
Harvest Object Id 27fcab46-6d96-46a6-8b19-c1b8b2dfe20b
Harvest Source Id 9386406b-a7b0-4834-a267-0f912b6340db
Harvest Source Title SSA JSON
License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Program Code 016:000
Related Documents https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/microdata/epuf/index.html, https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/microdata/epuf/epuf_dictionary.pdf, https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v71n4/v71n4p33.html, https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/rsnotes/rsn2012-01.html
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 80ed06098f1406181419525a100652d8161d90ed
Source Schema Version 1.1

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