[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 2, Parts 700 to 1199]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR841.404]

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                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
          CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT (Continued)
 
PART 841--FEDERAL EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM--GENERAL ADMINISTRATION--Table of Contents
 
                       Subpart D--Government Costs
 
Sec. 841.404  Demographic factors.

    (a) The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) will consider the 
factors listed below in determining normal cost percentages. To the 
extent data are available for the factor by specific category of 
employees, such data will be used. To the extent category specific data 
are not available, the most relevant available data will be used.
    (1) Distributions of new entrants by age, sex, and service;
    (2) Withdrawal rates;

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    (3) Merit salary increases;
    (4) Voluntary retirement rates;
    (5) Involuntary retirement rates;
    (6) Disability retirement rates;
    (7) Employee death rates;
    (8) Military service rates;
    (9) Family characteristics for employees;
    (10) Death rates for non-disability annuitants;
    (11) Death and recovery rates for disability annuitants;
    (12) Child survivor termination and death rates;
    (13) Family characteristics for annuitants; and
    (14) Administrative expenses.
    (b) Generally, each rate, ratio, or fraction must be separately 
considered to determine the rates for males and their survivors and the 
rates for females and their survivors, except those rates for child 
survivors and merit salary increases.