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Form 5500 Annual Return/Report Datasets

Dataset Summary

Agency	Department of Labor
Sub-Agency	Employee Benefits Security Administration
Category	Population
Date Released	01/22/10
Date Updated	12/04/09
Time Period	Year
Frequency	Annual
Description	The Form 5500 Annual Report is the primary source of information about the operations, funding and investments of about 800,000 retirement and welfare benefit plans. These datasets are the raw data from all of the filings for each year, including the data in the various schedules.

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Dataset Information

Data.gov Data Category Type	Tool Catalog
Specialized Data Category Designation	Administrative
Keywords	employee benefit plan, retirement plan, health plan, 5500, 401(k)
Unique ID	1588

Contributing Agency Information

Citation	Form 5500 Datasets http://www.dol.gov/ebsa/foia/foia-5500.html
Agency Program Page	http://www.dol.gov/ebsa
Agency Data Series Page	http://www.dol.gov/ebsa/foia/foia-5500.html

Dataset Coverage

Unit of Analysis	Employee benefit plan
Granularity
Geographic Coverage	Nationwide

Data Description

Collection Mode	paper/computer (from filings with the government)
Data Collection Instrument
Data Dictionary/Variable List	See links to file layouts for each dataset

Additional Dataset Documentation

Technical Documentation	http://www.dol.gov/ebsa/foia/current-foia.html
Additional Metadata

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