The SSI Public-Use Microdata File contains an extract of data fields from SSA's Supplemental Security Record file and consists of a 5 percent random, representative sample of persons who received a federal SSI benefit in December 2001. This file contains approximately 320,000 records, with 13 data fields on each record.

The OASDI Public-Use Microdata File contains an extract of data fields from SSA's Master Beneficiary Record file and consists of a 1 percent random, representative sample of persons entitled to receive an OASDI benefit payment for December 2001. This file contains approximately 460,000 records, with 16 data fields on each record. Report for 2001.

analyze the social security administration public use microdata files (ssapumf) with r the social security administration (ssa) must be overflowing with quiet heroes, because their public-use microdata files are as inconspicuous as they are thorough. sure, ssa publishes enough great statistical research of their own that outside researchers rarely find ourselves wanting more and fin er data that this agency can provide, but does that stop them from releasing detailed microdata as well? why no. no it does not. if you wake up one morning with a hankerin' to study the person-level lifetime cash-flows of fdr's legacy, roll up your sleeves and start right here. compared to the other data sets on asdfree.com, the social security administr ation public use microdata files (ssapumf) are as straightforward as it gets. you won't find complex sample survey data here, so just review the short-and-to-the-point data descriptions then calculate your statistics the way you would with other non-survey data. each of these files contain either one record per person or one record per person per year, and effortlessly generalize to the entire population of either social security number holders (most of the country) or social security recipients (just beneficiaries). the one-percent samples should be multiplied by 100 to get accurate nationwide count statistics an d the five-percent samples by 20, but ykta (my new urban dictionary entry). this new github repository contains one script: download all microdata.R download each zipped file directly onto your local computer load each file into a data.frame using a mixture of both fancery and schmantzery reproduce the overall count statistics provided in each respective data dictionary save each file as an R data file (.rda) for ultra-fast future use click here to view this lonely script for more detail about the social security administration public use microdata files (ssapumf), visit: < ul> the social security administration home page the social security administration open data initiative the national archives' history of social security notes: i skipped importing these n ew beneficiary data system (nbds) files because i broadly distrust data older than i am and you probably want these easy-to-use, far more current files anyway. confidential to sas, spss, stata, and sudaan users: no doubt they were very impressive when they originally became available. but so was the bone flute. time to transition to r. :D

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.