Data description and usage NCHS-Social Security Administration : September 10, 2009

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
• Description:
  The majority of this text was excerpted from the Rand corporation’s SSA Program Data User’s Manual (Panis,Constantijn; Euller, Ronald; Grant, Cynthia; Bradley, Melissa; Peterson, Christin E.; Hirscher, Randall; and PaulSteinberg. 2000. SSA Program Data User’s Manual. Rand Corporation Contract PM-973- SSA).
  
  The Master Beneficiary Record (MBR) master file contains the data that generates Social Security benefit checks under the Social Security Administration (SSA) Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program. The OASDI program provides income support to individuals who have made the transition from work to retirement, who are disabled, or the survivor of a spouse or parent who was entitled to benefits. An MBR record is created whenever an individual applies for benefits. However not everyone who applies receives benefits and the MBR record will reflect the final decision about the initial claim, including denials.
  
  The NCHS-MBR data file contains one record for each survey respondent who was linked to a MBR record from the SSA master file. Each MBR record can have up to three segments of OASDI benefit history data. The first record segment describes the benefit, if any, that the respondent applied for through December 2007 and payment history data for that entitlement. Individuals who receive benefits through a dual entitlement situation will have benefit data on a second and/or third record segment. In a dual entitlement situation, a person is entitled to benefits as a retired or disabled worker and is also entitled to benefits as the survivor of a spouse or parent who was entitled to benefits. Therefore, the second and/or third record segments describes the benefit, if any, that the respondent applied for through December 2007 and payment history data for that entitlement as an auxiliary beneficiary based on another person’s earnings. An individual may also have benefit data on the second and/or third record segments if denied benefits on one account but entitled on another, since denial information is also documented. This second and third benefit record segments have the same file layout as the first record segment with the variables identified by the extension _rp2 for the second and _rp3 for the third record segment. In addition, the variable OTBEN_CODE will have a value of “2” if an individual has a second record segment or “3” as indication that an individual has a third benefit record segment.
  
  nchs_ssa_data_codebook_2009.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Information Systems/standards Mortality Records Social Security
• Document Type:
  Book
• Place as Subject:
  United states
• Pages in Document:
  456 Pages in various paginations
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  National Center for Health Statistics
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