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| Number of Participants in
Pension Plans by type of plan entity, type of plan, and type of participant, 1996 (numbers in thousands) |
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| Type of Participant | Total Plans | Single Employer Plans 1/ | Multiemployer Plans 2/ | ||||||
| Total | Defined Benefit |
Defined Contribution |
Total | Defined Benefit |
Defined Contribution |
Total | Defined Benefit |
Defined Contribution |
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| Total participants | 91,716 | 41,111 | 50,605 | 80,841 | 32,467 | 48,374 | 10,876 | 8,644 | 2,231 |
| Active participants 3/ | 67,888 | 23,262 | 44,625 | 61,417 | 18,681 | 42,736 | 6,470 | 4,581 | 1,889 |
| Fully vested | 48,429 | 15,912 | 32,517 | 44,268 | 13,485 | 30,782 | 4,161 | 2,427 | 1,734 |
| Partially vested | 7,475 | 297 | 7,178 | 7,367 | 217 | 7,150 | 108 | 79 | 29 |
| Nonvested | 11,983 | 7,053 | 4,930 | 9,782 | 4,978 | 4,804 | 2,201 | 2,075 | 126 |
| Retired or separated participants receiving benefits |
9,552 | 8,929 | 622 | 7,209 | 6,623 | 586 | 2,343 | 2,307 | 36 |
| Separated part. with vested right to benefits |
14,277 | 8,920 | 5,358 | 12,215 | 7,163 | 5,052 | 2,062 | 1,756 | 306 |
| 1/ Includes single employer plans, plans of controlled groups of corporations and multiple-employer noncollectively bargained plans. |
| 2/ Includes multiemployer plans and multiple-employer collectively bargained plans. |
| 3/ Plans with less than 100 participants are required to provide only the total participant count. For these plans, which cover approximately 10 percent of all participants, the distribution of active, retired, and separated vested participants was assumed to be the same as for larger plans in each column. |
| NOTE: Excludes plans covering only one participant. |
| SOURCE: Form 5500 series reports filed with the Internal Revenue Service for plan years beginning in 1996. |
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