Finances of Selected State and Local Government Employee Retirement Systems
Finances of Selected State and Local Government Employee Retirement Systems is a quarterly survey that provides national summary data on the revenues, expenditures, and composition of assets of the largest state and local government employee retirement systems. This survey currently consists of a panel of 100 retirement systems, which comprise 89.4 percent of financial activity among such entities, based on the 2007 Census of Governments.
After a census has been taken, it is considered best practice to reselect the largest 100 retirement systems. The first quarter for 2009 presents data from the new universe of the 100 largest systems. The previous quarters represent data from the old universe. Five of the 100 units from the old universe were replaced with new retirement systems. We have provided a report that contains the bridge between the old and new units for the fourth quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of 2009. You can access this publication, #2009-03, here [PDF, 41.2KB] or at the following Web page: http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/govern.html
Unit ID File [TXT, 14KB] – Names of public employee retirement systems included in current data release.
(fixed length, no delimiter) (file layout [PDF, 39KB])
Release Schedule
2011 Fourth Quarter: The Finances of Selected State and Local Government Employee Retirement Systems data release for Fourth Quarter 2011 is tentatively scheduled to be posted to the Internet on March 29, 2012.
Announcements
Effective with the 2011 Q4 release, data will be released in .xls format only. Also, for 2011 Q4 Table 2 will show total contributions in addition to earnings on investments for total receipts.
Starting with the 2011 Q1 (first quarter) release of the Finances of Selected State and Local Government Employee Retirement Systems, a new methodology was utilized for imputing data for retirement systems that have not responded to the survey. A bridge study was published to provide data users with a link between data based on the old imputation method and data based on the new method.
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau | Finances of Large Public Retirement Systems | 1 (888) 529-1963 | govs.retire@census.gov |
Last Revised:
December 28, 2011