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| Number of Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs), Total Participants, Active Participants, Assets, Contributions, and Benefits
by type of ESOP, 1996 | ||||||
| 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 ESOPS | 8,871 | 7,517 | 6,447 | $313,963 | $17,554 | $22,910 |
| Nonleveraged ESOPs | 5,455 | 3,659 | 3,157 | 77,317 | 5,203 | 6,953 |
| Leveraged ESOPs | 3,417 | 3,858 | 3,290 | 236,646 | 12,351 | 15,957 |
| 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 made 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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