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Phone: Pensions

For more information on the Pensions Module see Appendix Q - Cor935.			  
			  
OVERVIEW


The sibling spouse pension questions mirror those asked of the siblings.  The
section begins with the types of retirement plans that the spouses own, then
follows by asking whether any benefits are being received from these plans.  If
they were not, eligibility age and expected benefit level are collected. (If
the spouses were currently receiving benefits, this information was collected
in the income module.) 

As in the sibling interview, unfolding brackets followed questions asking for
dollar amounts in this section. Associated with these items are four variables
(identified by the eight characters of the variable name) detailing the
information collected in the bracketing sequence.  The character "b" is
associated with a summary variable, "u" and "l" denote the upper and lower
bounds and "e" indicates the entry point into the bracketing sequence.

During the interview, interviewers had a chance to leave notes with additional
information obtained from the respondents.  The WLS staff reviewed and
processed these notes using a standardized set of decision rules for each
section.  In many cases processing the notes resulted in changes to the coded
responses which created inconsistencies in the skip pattern of the CASES
instrument. While we put considerable effort into adjusting such discrepancies,
we could not eliminate them all. Occasionally, notes indicated problematic
cases due to the lack of specific information or, conversely, cases that
contained extra information that was important enough to retain. In such
instances we created a flag, identified by the character "f" and attached it to
the variable name, for the affected variable. 


BRIEF VARIABLE DESCRIPTIONS

   BT001RE-BT006RE      Type of pension plans
   BT007RE-BT011RE      Current and expected benefits

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