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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).

Clustered stratified random sample

Face-to-face interview