SSA Travel Manager: Archived Electronic Travel System Records

Archive information for the electronic travel system used by Social Security Administration employees. The production databases were legally required to be retained for query use until at least 2017. The dataset was last updated on the platform in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Audit historical government travel compliance based on the archived electronic travel system data.
• Analyze patterns in government employee travel based on the archive information.
• Study the lifecycle and retention policies of government IT systems based on the legal requirement to retain data until 2017.

Strengths

• Data originates from a defined government agency, the Social Security Administration.
• Has a specific legal retention context, being required for query use until at least 2017.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Social Security Administration

Time Range

Records archived from a system legally retained until at least 2017.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-03 18:09:38.957727; freshness should be verified.