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March 2000

Health and retirement benefits: data from two BLS surveys

Diane Herz, Joseph R. Meisenheimer, II, Harriet Weinstein

Both the household-based Current Population Survey and the establishment-based Employee Benefits Survey have strengths and limitations with respect to collecting information on health and retirement benefits: demographic information is best obtained from household surveys; details of benefit plans are best collected from establishments

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