Government Information, Statistics, and more!: Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics

The Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics (ORES) is the Social Security Agency's source for statistics on the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) programs and the earnings of the working and beneficiary populations. ORES provide all the statistics and data on their website except for National Beneficiary Survey: Disability Statistics and DI & SSI Program Participants: Characteristics & Employment, which are provided by the Office of Research, Demonstration, and Employment Support.

• Glossary of Social Security Terms (Un Glosario de Terminología del Seguro Social)
• Glossary of Social Security Acronyms (PDF)
• Social Security Redbook Glossary

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• Research & Statistics Home (Recently Released Statistics, Quick Stats, Popular Publications, and links to other stuff)
• Research & Analysis
  • Issue Papers
  • ORES Working Papers (lots of them)
  • Program Summaries (Federal, State Assistance, International Retirement Programs)
  • Research and Statistics Notes (many papers)
  • Research Summaries (interesting stuff!)
  • Social Security Bulletin (updated quarterly, from March 1938 to almost today)
• Archives
  • Research & Analysis by Author (use this to check to see if the author of the interesting paper you found has written something else interesting)
  • Research & Analysis by Type
  • Research & Analysis by Release Date (1940 to almost today)
  • Selected Research & Analysis by Subject
  • Research & Analysis by Title (lots of them, every letter except X and Z have lots of entries in this alphabetized list of titles)
• Extramural Projects
  • Retirement and Disability Research Consortium (includes search box)
  • Survey Support
  • Contractor Reports
• Statistics & Data Files (20 years or more of data)
  • Annual Statistical Report on the Social Security Disability Insurance Program (updated annually)
  • Annual Statistical Supplement (updated annually)
  • Congressional Statistics (updated annually)
  • DI & SSI Program Participants: Characteristics & Employment (updated intermittently)
  • Earnings and Employment Data for Workers Covered Under Social Security and Medicare, by State and County (updated annually)
  • Expenditures of the Aged Chartbook (updated intermittently)
  • Fast Facts & Figures About Social Security (updated annually)
  • Income of the Aged Chartbook (updated every two years)
  • Income of the Population 55 or Older (updated every two years)
  • National Beneficiary Survey: Disability Statistics (updated intermittently)
  • OASDI Beneficiaries by State and County (updated annually)
  • OASDI Beneficiaries by State and ZIP Code (updated annually)
  • SSI Annual Statistical Report (updated annually)
  • SSI Monthly Statistics (updated monthly, was annually)
  • SSI Recipients by State and County (updated annually)
• Archives
  • Statistics & Data Files by Type
    • Chartbooks
    • Fact Sheets
    • Public-Use Data Files
    • Statistical Compilations
  • Statistics & Data Files by Release Date
  • Statistics & Data by Subject
  • Statistics & Data Files by Title
• Briefing Papers
• Population Profiles
  • Child Beneficiaries
  • Child Beneficiary Families
  • Fully Insured Workers
  • Marital Status & Poverty
  • Middle Class Beneficiaries
  • Never Beneficiaries, Aged 60 or Older
  • Taxable Maximum Earners
  • Veteran Beneficiaries
• Program Explainers
  • Benefit Claiming Age
  • Government Pension Offset
  • Retirement Earnings Test
  • Scheduled vs. Payable Benefits
  • Special Minimum Benefit
  • Why Will Poverty Decline for Social Security Beneficiaries Aged 60 and Older?
  • Windfall Elimination Provision
• Projections
  • Fact Sheets
    • Projections by Beneficiary Type
      • Divorced Spousal Beneficiaries in 2050
      • Early Eligibility Age Beneficiaries in 2050
      • Spousal-Only Beneficiaries in 2050
      • Survivor-Only Beneficiaries in 2050
      • Women & Dual Entitlement, 2025–2095
    • Projections by Demographic Group
      • Beneficiaries Aged 60+ by Race & Ethnicity
      • Lifetime Low Earners in 2050
      • The Oldest Old in 2050
      • Sporadic Low Earners in 2050
      • Taxpayers Aged 31+ by Race & Ethnicity
  • Tables
    • Policy Option Projections
    • Projected Profile of Beneficiaries by Race & Ethnicity
    • Projected Profile of Taxpayers by Race & Ethnicity

Below are ORES annual reports to the Office of Management and Budget, as required under the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act (CIPSEA).

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