Summary information

Study title

Retirement and Retirement Plans, 1988-1989

Creator

Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, Social Survey Division

Study number / PID

2946 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-2946-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

The aim of this survey was to identify factors affecting age at retirement; to provide information on the financial provisions people make for their retirement and to give information which could be used in predicting the distribution of future pensioners' incomes.
Two-thirds of the respondents from this survey were re-interviewed for a second wave of the survey in 1994 - the resulting dataset is held at the Archive under SN:4044.
Main Topics:

Current financial circumstances; occupational and private pensions; actual and expected age at retirement; pension and job histories since leaving continuous full-time education; disability.
Measurement scales used
Disability rating scales. These measures were first used for the OPCS Surveys of Disability, 1985. For details see: Martin, J., Meltzer, H. and Elliot, D. <i>The prevalence of disability among adults</i> (London: HMSO, 1988).

RetirementElderly

ADOPTED CHILDRENAGEAGGRESSIVENESSAPPOINTMENT TO JOBAPPRENTICESHIPATTITUDESBANK ACCOUNTSBEHAVIOURAL DISORDERSBONUS PAYMENTSBUILDING MAINTENANCEBUILDING SOCIETY ACCOUNTSCARE OF DEPENDANTS

Data collection period

01/11/1988 - 01/01/1989

Country

Great Britain

Time dimension

Longitudinal/panel/cohort

first of two waves - see also SN:4044

Analysis unit

Individuals

National

Employees

Retired people

Universe

Adults aged 55 to 69 in Great Britain in private households, and their spouses.

Sampling procedure

Clustered stratified random sample

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

1992

Terms of data access

The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.

Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.

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