Understanding America Study

UAS 133

Household Finances Annual Pulse Survey

Financial Literacy
Income
Savings

Survey Experiments:

Auxiliary Randomization

Section	Description
Base	Base questions
Demographics	Demographics
stress	Financial Stress
financial	Financial Background
income	Income
spending	Spending
borrow	Borrowing
insurance	Insurance Coverage
planning	Planning
psychographic	Psychographic
employment	Employment
save	Save
householdConditions	Household Conditions
Closing	Closing questions

Metadata

Survey codebook

Publications associated with this survey

Adele Peters, "Despite the “good economy,” only 28% of Americans are financially healthy" Fast Company November 1 (2018)
James Rufus Koren, "Most Americans are not financially healthy despite booming economy, survey finds" Los Angeles Times November 1 (2018)
Jennifer Tescher, "You Can’t Change What You Can’t See: Taking America’s Financial Health Pulse" Next Billion November 1 (2018)
Kari Paul, "The ‘true state’ of Americans’ financial lives: only 3 in 10 are ‘financially healthy’ " MarketWatch November 1 (2018)

Data
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UAS 133 - Response Overview	#
Size of selected sample	6162
Completed the survey	5058
Started but did not complete the survey	52
Did not start the survey	1052
Response rate	82.08%

Timing Distribution

Additional Information
Sample selection	All active respondents except for respondents from the Native American and LA listed sample, and Spanish speakers.
Language(s)	English/Spanish
Field dates	April 26, 2018 to July 04, 2018
Under embargo	No
Average Time	23 minutes