Understanding America Study

UAS 118

Insurance Product Choices

Consumer Behavior
Subjective Expectations

Survey Experiments:

Product Choice Experiments

Section	Description
Base	Base questions
Demographics	Demographics
annuities	Annuities
lifeinsurance	Life Insurance
ltci	Long Term Care Insurance
final	Final Questions
supannuities	Supplemental Annuities
suplife	Supplemental Life Insurance
supltci	Supplemental Long Term Care Insurance
Closing	Closing questions

Metadata
Survey codebook
Publications associated with this survey Joseph Briggs and Christopher Tonetti, "Risky Insurance: Insurance Portfolio Choice with Incomplete Markets" Society for Economic Dynamics 2019 Meeting Papers, No. 1388 (2019)

Data
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UAS 118 - Response Overview	#
Size of selected sample	1333
Completed the survey	1088
Started but did not complete the survey	32
Did not start the survey	213
Response rate	81.62%

Timing Distribution

Additional Information
Sample selection	A custom selection of 839 active respondents 45+ who completed the second wave of HRS combined with 494 respondents 45+ who were scheduled to take the second wave of HRS in the 6 months after the survey. The sample excluded Native Americans and LA listed sample as well as Spanish speakers.
Language(s)	English/Spanish
Field dates	May 07, 2018 to May 25, 2018
Under embargo	No
Average Time	16 minutes