The Quarterly Finances of Selected Public Employee-Retirement Systems is a summary of the cash and security holdings, receipts, benefits, and withdrawals of major public employee retirement systems. As authorized by Title 13, U.S. Code, Section 182, the U.S. Census Bureau collects the data from the 100 largest retirement systems based on Total Cash and Security Holdings as identified in the most recent Census of Public Employee Retirement Systems.

It is important to note that this is not a probability sample of all public employee retirement systems, so the results of this survey cannot be used to infer distributions for the entire universe of retirement systems. Neither can the sample be weighted to obtain an estimate of total cash and security holdings, receipts, benefits, or withdrawals for the entire public employee retirement system universe. The totals given in this report reflect only the universe of the 100 largest public employment retirement systems.