OASDI Beneficiaries by State and County, 2002
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- Contact Information
- Preface
- Table of Contents
- Accessibility and Usability Information
- Other Editions of this Publication
Contact Information
For questions pertaining to the data, please contact Jennie Park at oasdi.sc@ssa.gov or 410-965-9358. To obtain additional copies of this report, please send an e-mail to the Division of Information Resources at op.publications@ssa.gov.
Preface
This annual publication focuses on the Social Security beneficiary population at the local level. It presents basic program data on the number and type of beneficiaries and the amount of benefits paid in each state and county. It also shows the numbers of men and women aged 65 or older receiving benefits. This report is a useful planning aid for Social Security Administration (SSA) field offices and for those providing information to federal, state, and local government agencies.
The data are derived from the Master Beneficiary Record (MBR), the principal administrative file of Social Security beneficiaries. The national ZIP + 4 file produced by the U.S. Postal Service is used to designate the beneficiary's state and county. The ZIP + 4 file, which specifies counties in terms of
The data include only persons whose benefits are currently payable. Those whose benefits were withheld are excluded.
Some Social Security beneficiaries have a representative payee—a person designated by SSA to receive their monthly benefit when such action is in the beneficiary's best interest. About 4 percent of all adult beneficiaries and virtually all child beneficiaries under age 18 have representative payees. For most children, the representative payee is the parent with whom the child resides. For beneficiaries with representative payees, the state and county designations are those of the representative payees, not those of the beneficiaries.
A special procedure (controlled rounding) has been used in preparing Tables 4 and 5 to avoid disclosure of the reason for eligibility of small groups and the amount of benefits received. Under this procedure, county data on the number of persons shown in Table 4 are changed according to the following formula:
- If the number is divisible by 5 (ends in 0 or 5), then the numbers are not changed.
- Otherwise, the number is rounded either to the next higher number divisible by 5 or the next lower number divisible by 5, in such a way that the difference between each rounded and unrounded cell value, each rounded and unrounded row total, and each rounded and unrounded column total is less than 5.
- After the numbers have been rounded, the dollar amounts in Table 5 are proportionately adjusted upward or downward, as appropriate.
Jennie H. Park in the Division of Retirement, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (RSDI) Statistics and Analysis programmed and compiled the data for this report. Emil Loomis designed the cover, Celine Houget edited the report, Kathryn Winstead provided final production assistance, and Laurie Brown prepared the electronic versions for the Web at www.socialsecurity.gov/policy.
Acting Associate Commissioner for Research, Evaluation, and Statistics
August 2003
Table of Contents
Data tables are available by state or region.
The PDF file for each state contains the following five tables:
- Table 1. Beneficiaries as a percentage of the total resident population and of the population aged 65 or older, by state, December 2002
- Table 2. Number of beneficiaries with benefits in current-payment status, by type of benefit, sex of beneficiaries aged 65 or older, and state or other area, December 2002
- Table 3. Amount of benefits in current-payment status, by type of benefit, sex of beneficiaries aged 65 or older, and state or other area, December 2002
- Table 4. Number of beneficiaries in state or other area with benefits in current-payment status, by type of benefit, sex of beneficiaries aged 65 or older, and county, December 2002
- Table 5. Amount of benefits in current-payment status for beneficiaries in state or other area, by type of benefit, sex of beneficiaries aged 65 or older, and county, December 2002
The PDF file for each region contains Tables 1–3 (which cover all states) and Tables 4 and 5 for each state in the particular region.
The HTML file for each state contains Tables 4 and 5 for the given state.
Data Tables by State
Data Tables by Region
Accessibility and Usability Information
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Other Editions of this Publication
Next Expected Update
August 2009
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Other Editions
- OASDI Beneficiaries by State and County, 2007 (released November 2008)
- OASDI Beneficiaries by State and County, 2006 (released August 2007)
- OASDI Beneficiaries by State and County, 2005 (released September 2006)
- OASDI Beneficiaries by State and County, 2004 (released July 2005)
- OASDI Beneficiaries by State and County, 2003 (released August 2004)
- OASDI Beneficiaries by State and County, 2002 (released August 2003)
- OASDI Beneficiaries by State and County, 2001 (released November 2002) *
- OASDI Beneficiaries by State and County, 2000 (released July 2001)
- OASDI Beneficiaries by State and County, 1999 (released January 2001)
* Document currently available in print only.