To establish current savings behavior, one necessary measurement of retirement preparation is identifying the percentage of workers with employment-based retirement plans, as well as understanding the characteristics of workers with and without access to such programs. The findings from this...

To establish existing savings behavior, it is necessary to estimate the percentage of workers with an employment-based retirement plan, and to know the characteristics of workers with and without a plan - the subject of this paper. The findings show that there has been a significant increase in...

The Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the U.S. Census Bureau's Current Population Survey (CPS) is one of the most-cited sources of income data for retirement-age Americans (typically ages 65 or older). It has also been used to provide annual estimates of employment-based retirement plan...

This article focuses on employment-based retirement plan participation for full-time, full-year wage and salary workers ages 18 -64 years old, as this is the group that is generally targeted for benefit program participation under federal law and by employers and unions. The retirement plan...

This article examines February 2001 Current Population Survey (CPS) data for workers' participation in employment-based pension plans. The percentage of workers ages 21-64 participating in a plan was found to be 54.8 percent in 2001, up from 51.0 percent in 1995. Furthermore, workers with...

This paper focuses on a critical factor in retirement security: the presence of income or assets from an employment-based retirement plan. It is the third in a series of EBRI publications based on the Retirement and Pension Plan Coverage Topical Module of the 2001 Survey of Income and Program...