Alan Gustman and Thomas Steinmeier, "Social Security, Pensions and Retirement Behavior within the Family", Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 19, No. 6, 2004, pp. 723-737. The social security earnings records and pension information used in this study are restricted to maintain the confidentiality of the respondents. Application to obtain the restricted data must be made to Health and Retirement Study Cathy Liebowitz 426 S. Thompson St. P.O. Box 1248 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106-1248. At present, the HRS and its primary sponsor, the NIA, require that applicants have active federal grants in order to acquire the data. The program which applies the exclusion rules and generates the dataset used in the analysis is hrsprep.c. This is a text file containing c source code and is compiled using a Borland c++ Version 5.02 compiler. The output data structure is called srmvars and contains, for each spouse in the couple, the birth year, whether the spouse regarded as being together with the other spouse as an advantage of retirement, the age at which health problems lasting for more than one survey set in, the last observed age of full time work, the first observed age of retirement, and compensation from age 25 to 74, including pension and social security accruals. The file hrsprep.c, an ASCII file in DOS format, is zipped in hrsprep.zip. Thomas Steinmeier Department of Economics Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX 79424