Cross-Wave Prospective Social Security Wealth Measures of Pre-Retirees 1992-2020

The Cross-Wave Prospective Social Security Wealth Measures of Pre-Retirees data set consists of respondent-level Social Security benefits wealth estimates constructed using the HRS survey data as well as SSA's administrative records.

This release replaces all other public-use Social Security benefits wealth data products released by the HRS, and includes the following changes:

1. This file now covers all waves of the study, instead of just the baseline waves.

2. Wealth measures in earlier waves are re-calculated based on newly available linked Social Security earnings records as of the 2020 wave.