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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

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    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

    Other Data Resources

    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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