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

• PlanInformation. Contains pension plan information based on the most recent Summary Plan Descriptions available from employers who provided the documents in 1999 as well as employers who were re-contacted in 2003 (n=1454)
• Respondents. Contains data used to calculate pension entitlements for HRS respondents, one record per plan/job type/respondent. Includes Participant ID, Plan ID, sex, date of birth, 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 Household Identifier + Person Number. (n=3486)
• 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 Household Identifier + Person Number. (n=2214)
• 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)
• PublicPrivate. This table provides classification of the coded plans as public or private

The information contained in this database is designed for use with 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.