A Microsoft Access (.mdb) database containing the following tables of interest:

• PlanInformation. Contains pension plan information based on Summary Plan Descriptions collected in 1993 and coded in 1994-1995. (n=1717)
• Respondents. Contains data used to calculate pension entitlements for HRS respondents, one record per plan/job type/respondent. Includes Participant ID, Plan ID, sex, birthdate, marital status, employment hire/terminate dates, salary/wage information, voluntary contributions, and wage growth data. Note: the respondent identifier key for this table, RespondentNumber, is the same as Wave1 CaseID. (n=6387)
• Wages. Contains wage information used in calculating pension entitlements, one record per job type/respondent. Note: the respondent identifier key for this table, RespondentNumber, is the same as Wave1 CaseID. (n=4811)
• SimulatedRespondents. Contains seed respondent values for use with the simulated respondent feature of the Pension Estimation Program. These values may be modified by the user. (n=1)
• SimulatedWages. Contains seed wage value for use with the simulated respondent feature of the Pension Estimation Program. This value may be modified by the user. (n=1)

These data require the latest version of the Pension Estimation Program, which may be downloaded from the HRS User Registration/File Distribution System web site. The program is free, but registration is required. The program can be used in simulated respondent mode as a standalone application, but both provider and respondent data are required in order to generate estimates for HRS respondents.