readme.sscla

Data Group Name: sscla (1975-2003)                                                     
                                                                             
Description:                                                                 
        Social Security Cost-of-Living Adjustments (percent)                 
                                                   
Data Source(s):                                                              
        Social Security Administration, "Automatic Increases for the Social    
        Security and Supplemental Security Income Programs" webpage            
       http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/COLA/colaseries.html            
                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                
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 'sscla.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=1975   Max=2003                               
                                                                               
           SUPERKEY =YEAR;                                                     
                                                                               
Data series [summary]:                                                         
        Varname  Fmtname   Typ    Description                                  
        -------  -------   ---    -----------                                  
        COSTLADJ COSTLADJ. Num    Cost-of-Living Adjustment %                  
                                                                               
---------------------------- Data series COSTLADJ----------------------------  
    Varname  Fmtname   Typ    Description                                      
    COSTLADJ COSTLADJ. Num    Cost-of-Living Adjustment %                      
                              Units=percent                                    
                              Min=1.3   Max=14.3   Mean=4.56551724             
                              N=29   N_Missing=0                               
                                                                               
    How missings handled:                                                      
    Comments: Social Security Cost-of-Living Adjustments - Increases prior     
              to 1984 were effective for the payment due on July 1 of the      
              year.  Increases shown for 1984 and later are effective for      
              the payment due on January 1 of the year.                        
              ** 1983 - Represents ad hoc increases and are specified          
               in the law.                                                     
    Usage: myvar=put(superkey,COSTLADJ.);                                      
                                                                               
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The CONTENTS Procedure

Data Set Name: SCRLIB.SSCLA04                        Observations:         29
Member Type:   DATA                                  Variables:            2 
Engine:        V8                                    Indexes:              0 
Created:       15:17 Saturday, May 22, 2004          Observation Length:   16
Last Modified: 15:17 Saturday, May 22, 2004          Deleted Observations: 0 
Protection:                                          Compressed:           NO
Data Set Type:                                       Sorted:               NO
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       -----Alphabetic List of Variables and Attributes-----
 
#    Variable    Type    Len    Pos    Label
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2    COSTLADJ    Num       8      8    Cost-of-Living Adjustment %
1    YEAR        Num       8      0    Year