To investigate the extent of present provision of pre-retirement courses in England and Wales and to provide information upon which future policy for a more integrated scheme of national provision could be considered Variables Educational Establishments Provision made for pre-retirement education, plans to provide such education before 31st December 1981, categories of provision (e.g. courses for general public, full-time staff of own organisation, etc.), policy on categories of provision, details of most recently completed course, including length, number invited to attend, number actually attending, course content and objectives; whether: residential, attended by intended partners in retirement, participants involved in design, fee charged, course leader in attendance, outside speakers engaged. Details of staff involved: whether specialists in pre-retirement education, number of such staff, working hours spent in 1979 on pre-retirement ecucation duties. Whether organisation is a member of a pre-retirement association. Occupational establishments Size of organisation, percentage of male and female employers over fifty years of age, existence of policy on pre-retirement education, details of financing, whether employers informed personally of existance of courses.