| Number of Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs), Total Participants, Active Participants, Assets, Contributions, and Benefits by type of plan, 1996 |
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| Type of Plan | Number of Plans 1/ |
Total Participants (thousands) 2/ |
Active Participants (thousands) 3/ |
Total Assets (millions) |
Total Contributions (millions) 4/ |
Total Benefits (millions) 5/ |
| TOTAL | 8,871 | 7,517 | 6,447 | $313,963 | $17,554 | $22,910 |
| Profit sharing and thrift-savings | 3,359 | 3,984 | 3,425 | 218,117 | 11,796 | 15,487 |
| Stock bonus | 4,218 | 2,938 | 2,513 | 76,931 | 4,836 | 6,072 |
| Target benefit | 2 | 3 | 3 | 53 | 4 | 4 |
| Money purchase | 244 | 59 | 51 | 2,084 | 107 | 155 |
| Annuity-403(b)(1) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 403(b)(7) | 3 | 2 | 2 | 55 | 7 | 5 |
| IRAs or annuities (Code 408) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 1 |
| Other defined contribution | 1,042 | 529 | 451 | 16,713 | 804 | 1,186 |
| 1/ Excludes plans covering only one participant. |
| 2/ Includes active, retired, and separated vested participants not yet in pay status. The number of participants also includes double counting of workers in more than one plan. |
| 3/ Active participants include any workers currently in employment covered by a plan and who are earning or retaining credited service under a plan. Active participants also include nonvested former employees who have not yet incurred a break in service. |
| 4/ Includes both employer and employee contributions. |
| 5/ Amounts shown include both benefits paid directly from trust funds and premium payments made by plans to insurance carriers. Amounts exclude benefits directly by insurance carriers. |
| SOURCE: Form 5500 series reports filed with the Internal Revenue Service for plan years beginning in 1996. |
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