Understanding America Study

UAS 101

Survey Experiments:

Section	Description
Base	Base questions
Demographics	Demographics
appendixB	Information Treatments for the Retirement Earnings Test
appendixA	Survey Questions for the Retirement Earnings Test
appendixC	Survey Questions for the Impacts of Policy on Subjective Expectations
appendixD	Information Treatments for Questions for the Impacts of Policy on Subjective Expectations
appendixE	Survey Questions About Spousal Benefits
Closing	Closing questions

Metadata
Survey codebook
Publications associated with this survey Francisco Perez-Arce, Lila Rabinovich and Joanne Yoong, "The potential impact of policies to reduce Social Security funding shortfalls on consumers" Journal of Pension Economics & Finance Volume 20 , Special Issue 4: New Longitudinal Data for Retirement Analysis and Policy , October 2021 , pp. 482 - 495 (2019) Francisco Perez-Arce, Lila Rabinovich, Anya Samek and Joanne Yoong, "The effect of informational prompts about survivor benefits for spouses on Social Security claim intentions." Journal of Pension Economics & Finance Volume 20 , Special Issue 4: New Longitudinal Data for Retirement Analysis and Policy , October 2021 , pp. 504 - 515 (2019) Lila Rabinovich and Francisco Perez-Arce, "Improving understanding of the retirement earnings test" Journal of Pension Economics & Finance Volume 20 , Special Issue 4: New Longitudinal Data for Retirement Analysis and Policy (2019)

Metadata

Francisco Perez-Arce, Lila Rabinovich and Joanne Yoong, "The potential impact of policies to reduce Social Security funding shortfalls on consumers" Journal of Pension Economics & Finance Volume 20 , Special Issue 4: New Longitudinal Data for Retirement Analysis and Policy , October 2021 , pp. 482 - 495 (2019)
Francisco Perez-Arce, Lila Rabinovich, Anya Samek and Joanne Yoong, "The effect of informational prompts about survivor benefits for spouses on Social Security claim intentions." Journal of Pension Economics & Finance Volume 20 , Special Issue 4: New Longitudinal Data for Retirement Analysis and Policy , October 2021 , pp. 504 - 515 (2019)
Lila Rabinovich and Francisco Perez-Arce, "Improving understanding of the retirement earnings test" Journal of Pension Economics & Finance Volume 20 , Special Issue 4: New Longitudinal Data for Retirement Analysis and Policy (2019)

Data
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UAS 101 - Response Overview	#
Size of selected sample	5969
Completed the survey	5006
Started but did not complete the survey	104
Did not start the survey	859
Response rate	83.87%

Timing Distribution

Additional Information
Sample selection	All active respondents except Spanish speakers.
Language(s)	English/Spanish
Field dates	September 01, 2017 to July 11, 2018
Under embargo	No
Average Time	18 minutes