Form 5500 Research File User Guide 2018

This document is about the user guide for the 2018 Form 5500 Private Pension Plan Research File. It explains the universe of plans included, the weights applied, the data editing process, and the additional variables generated to classify and describe the pension plans. It provides details on the Form 5500 filing requirements, data extraction and selection, weighting methodology, and editing procedures used to create this research file for analysis.