Dataset

The Statistical Abstract files are distributed by the US Census Department as Microsoft Excel files. These files have data mixed with notes and references, multiple tables per sheet, and, worst of all, the table headers are not easily matched to their rows and columns.

A few files had extraneous characters in the title. These were corrected to be consistent. A few files have a sheet of crufty gibberish in the first slot. The sheet order was shuffled but no data were changed.

The tables that were changed (this is table 1190):

0166 0257 0362 0429 0445 0446 0459 0461 0462 0464 0465 0466 0467
0469 0479 0480 0481 0482 0483 0484 0485 0486 0487 0559 0628 0629
1144 1227 1231

This dataset consists of a table of 51 rows and 58 columns.

In billions of dollars (25 represents $25,000,000,000). As of end of year. Except for corporate equities, represents book value. Excludes social security trust funds; see Table 530

Footnotes

1. Annuity reserves held by life insurance companies, excluding unallocated contracts held by private pension funds.
2. Private defined benefit plans and defined contribution plans (including
   401(k) type plans).
3. Assets held at life insurance companies (e.g., guaranteed investment
   contracts (GICs), variable annuities).
4. Includes the Federal Employees Thrift Savings Plan, the National Railroad Retirement
   Investment Trust, and nonmarketable government securities held by federal government
   retirement funds.