Inter-Agency Data Linkage Exact Match Study Files

The data were also used to evaluate the effects of alternative ways of determining Social Security benefits, to summarize the lifetime covered earnings patterns of persons who have contributed to Social Security, and to compare the earnings and wage distribu tions used in the Current Population Survey and the Continuous Work History Sample.

This series consists of files with information from the February - March and June Current Population Surveys, Social Security's Summary of Earnings Record and Quarterly Wage File, and the Internal Revenue Service federal income tax returns and Statistics of Income program files. Identification information in the files allows for individual records to be linked across files. This data comprises government records extracted from the Archival Research Catalog (ARC).