SQL & PL/SQL :: Joins With COUNT

I pulled in 1121 SSN's into a table and am using that table as the basis for returning data from other tables...including how many documents a user has in their folder.

My query; however, is only returning 655 rows...it is returning only those rows that have documents in their folders. I want to return ALL rows...WHETHER OR NOT THEY HAVE A DOCUMENT COUNT (count(*)). How can I get all 1,121 rows to return? I would like the output to look like:

SSN LOCATION EMP_STATUS FOL_STATUS COUNT(*)
-- For those folders containing documents:
XXX-XX-XXXX WHATEVER WHATEVER WHATEVER 12

-- For those folders containing 0 documents:
XXX-XX-XXXX WHATEVER WHATEVER WHATEVER NULL

Here is the query in it's current state:

-- Get User/Folder/Doc Count Information
SELECT b.ssn,
b.location,
b.emp_status,
c.fol_status,
COUNT (*)

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So again, my problem here is that...not all FOLDERS contain DOCUMENTS...but I still want the folder data lised...I just need it listed with either a zero count (0), or a NULL in the COUNT(*) column.

I'm trying the various joins, but none of them seem to be working.

I've tried the old 8i (+) join as follows:

AND c.fol_id = d.doc_fol_id(+)

I've tried the inner join:

AND c.fol_id(+) = d.doc_fol_id

...and I've tried the 9i method (left outer and full outer) using the following types of notations:

folder c full outer join documend d on c.fol_id = d.doc_fol_id

...so far, no luck. I'm still having only 655 rows returned (the 655 are those folders that HAVE document count > 0. Any folder that has zero documents in the document table just aren't being returned in the query.)