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Department of Health and Social Security and Department of Employment: Reasons for...
Catalogue reference: BN 93
What's it about?
BN 93
The Reasons for Retirement Dataset comprises data collected from a random sample, which was the result of a stratified random sample from a postal sift, of retired people and those who continued working after normal retiring age. It consisted of...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- BN 93
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Health and Social Security and Department of Employment: Reasons for Retirement dataset
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1977-1982
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Description (What the record is about)
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The Reasons for Retirement Dataset comprises data collected from a random sample, which was the result of a stratified random sample from a postal sift, of retired people and those who continued working after normal retiring age. It consisted of men aged 55-72 and women aged 50-72 in Great Britain. It included data on constraints on working after or just before normal retirement, and effects of various personal, policy and environmental factors on timing of retirement.
The datasets in this series are available to download. Links to individual datasets can be found at piece level.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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The original hardware, Operating System, application software, and user interface are not known.
Logical structure and schema: The dataset was transferred to the Essex Data Archive in 1980 in ASCII on 9-track tape (labelled, fixed-length record text files of 80 characters, 10 records per block). The data was transferred to NDAD as four fixed length text files.
How data was originally captured and validated: Data was collected by means of face-to-face interview with the use of questionnaires.
The Reasons for Retirement dataset is closed in that once the data was entered it was archived and not subsequently overwritten by other data.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former reference (Former reference given to the record)
- CRDA/27
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, Social Survey Division, 1971-1996
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 2 datasets and documentation
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Restrictions on use (Information on restrictions to the use or reproduction of the material)
- The Reasons for Retirement dataset and related dataset documentation are subject to Crown Copyright; copies may be made for private study and research purposes only.
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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In 2010 the United Kingdom National Digital Archive of Datasets
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Labour
- Pay and pensions
- Sex and gender
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- The dataset was transferred to the Essex Data Archive in 1980 in ASCII on 9-track tape (labelled, fixed-length record text files of 80 characters, 10 records per block). The dataset was then deposited at the Department of Social Policy and Administration at the Economic and Social Research Council Data Archive, University of Essex in 1982 by the Department of Health and Social Security and David Piachaud, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). The dataset was transferred to the United Kingdom National Digital Archive of Datasets (NDAD) who held it from 2000 until 2010 when it was transferred to The National Archives (TNA).
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No further accruals are expected.
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- Extent of documentation: 24 documents, Dates of creation of documentation: 1977-1982
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Reasons for Retirement Dataset was a study undertaken at the request of, and sponsored by, the Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) and the Department of Employment (DE). The investigation was done by the Social Survey Division of the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys.
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Copies information (Indicates existence, availability, location and format of copies)
- The Reasons for Retirement dataset is also held at the UK Data Archive (http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/), and has been given the reference number 1134.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15564/
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