Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics

Contacts

ORES is responsible for:

• Conducting policy research and evaluation and sponsoring the Retirement Research Consortium;
• Providing statistical data on OASDI and SSI program benefits, payments, covered workers, and other indicators;
• Sponsoring special-purpose survey data collections and studies to improve data for research and statistics related to social security issues
• Developing links between administrative record data and survey data for use in Social Security research and policy analysis;
• Developing and operating microsimulation models that estimate the distributional effects of proposed changes in Social Security programs;
• Disseminating research and statistical material through print and web publications; and
• Ensuring the availability, integrity, and confidentiality of statistical data and participating in several interagency statistical programs and projects.