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. 2015 Jun 24;10(6):e0130119. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0130119

Table 6. Insurance Trust Revenue Variables.

Variable Name Census Code Description
Total Insurance Trust Revenue The sum of all insurance trust revenue
    Total Insurance Trust Contributions The sum of the contribution variables below
    Total Trust Investment Revenue The sum of the investment variables below
    Total Retirement Plan Revenue The sum of all retirement plan revenue
        Total Retirement Contributions The sum of the following four contribution variables
        Local Government Employees X01 Contributions from employees of local governments
        State Government Employees X04 Contributions from employees of state governments
        From Other Governments X05 Contributions coming from other governments
        Contribution to Own System X06 Contributions to the government’s own system
    Investment Earnings X08 All earnings on the investments of the retirement plan
    Total Unemployment Revenue The sum of the following three variables
        Unemployment Payroll Tax Y01 Included in total insurance trust contributions
        Unemployment Interest Revenue Y02 Included in total investment revenue
        Unemployment Federal Advances Y04 Funds received when taxes and investments cannot cover the benefits due to unemployed workers

This table describes the coding of the social insurance trust revenue variables and provides a short description of each. NEC stands for not elsewhere classified. The indentation of the variables in the first column indicates how subcategories of data collapse into larger categories. More detailed descriptions of each variable can be found in the Census’ 2006 classification manual (http://www.census.gov/govs/classification/) included with the database download.