For quite a while now most persons have gotten their SSN shortly after birth -- the gov. requires that of their parents -- otherwise the parents get no tax deduction for kiddie. Perhaps the students at ECU are less mobile than elsewhere -- a very high proportion of them have SSNs that are appropriate for persons living in North Carolina when registered, and very few have SSNs that point to the western half of the US.
Karl W. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arthur J. Kendall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: sci.stat.edu To: "Karl L. Wuensch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 1:50 PM Subject: Re: SSN, first three digits However, that might not be as probative as it might at first seem. It is the now the zip where the application came from. So if Suzie got her first job as a page, intern, camp counselor, college student, or military enlistee, it could well have been sent to the place of first employment. There are many CMSA's in the US that cross state boundaries, if you walked into an office that was in another jurisdiction there would be a different area. If the SSN is requested early in life, (This happens, for instance, when there is non-wage/salary income), and she could have moved several times. Many people apply for SSNs at a very mobile stage of life. . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
