readme.awi

Data Group Name: awi (1951-2002)                                                     
                                                                             
Description:                                                                 
        Social Security Average Wage Index                                   
                                                    
Data Source(s):                                                              
        Social Security Administration, "Automatic Increases for the Social  
        Security and Supplemental Security Income Programs" webpage          
        http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/COLA/AWI.html                          
  
                                                                             
Comments:                                                                    
 Average Wage Index:  The average amount of total wages for each year        
 after 1950, including wages in noncovered employment and wages in           
 covered employment in excess of the OASDI contribution and benefit          
 base.  These amounts are used to index the earnings of most workers         
 first becoming eligible for benefits in 1979 or later, and are automatic    
 adjustments in the contribution and benefit base, bend points, earnings     
 test exempt amounts, and other wage-indexed amounts.                        
                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                
Usage:  To look up values of these data for a set of key variable values
        (in SAS):

        a) In your SAS program, before your data step add:

           %include 'awi.fmt';

        b) set SUPERKEY to the combination of key variable values you
           want to look up.  See "SUPERKEY=" under key variable
           description below.

        c) use a formatted put function of SUPERKEY with the data series        
           format (See examples under "Usage" in detailed description of        
           each data series).                                              
                                                                             
Key vars:  Varname    Typ    Description                                     
           YEAR       Num    Year                                            
                             Min=1951   Max=2002                             
                                                                             
           SUPERKEY =YEAR;                                                   
                                                                             
Data series [summary]:                                                       
        Varname  Fmtname   Typ    Description                                
        -------  -------   ---    -----------                                
        AVGWAGEI AVGWAGEI. Num    Social Security Average Wage Index         
                                                                             
---------------------------- Data series AVGWAGEI----------------------------
    Varname  Fmtname   Typ    Description                                    
    AVGWAGEI AVGWAGEI. Num    Social Security Average Wage Index             
                              Units=                                         
                              Min=2799.16   Max=33252.09   Mean=12987.9008   
                              N=52   N_Missing=0                             
                                                                             
    How missings handled: There were no missing values                       
    Comments:                                                                
    Usage: myvar=put(superkey,AVGWAGEI.);                                    
                                                                             
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The CONTENTS Procedure

Data Set Name: SCRLIB.AWI04                          Observations:         52
Member Type:   DATA                                  Variables:            2 
Engine:        V8                                    Indexes:              0 
Created:       14:37 Thursday, May 20, 2004          Observation Length:   16
Last Modified: 14:37 Thursday, May 20, 2004          Deleted Observations: 0 
Protection:                                          Compressed:           NO
Data Set Type:                                       Sorted:               NO
Label:                                                                       



          -----Alphabetic List of Variables and Attributes-----
 
#    Variable    Type    Len    Pos    Label
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2    AVGWAGEI    Num       8      8    Social Security Average Wage Index
1    YEAR        Num       8      0    Year