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How comfortable are you with making your own investment decisions in your retirement accounts?
Comfort making own retirement investment decisions · Asked in 7 waves, 2016–2022 · 37,374 responses · weighted estimates computed from individual responses
Version of DC4 first asked in 2016: wording or answer options differ from shed:DC4.
Shares of people who gave an answer. Each column is one wave, evenly spaced rather than to scale in time; hover for exact shares.
| Group | Very comfortable | Mostly comfortable | Slightly comfortable | Not comfortable | n | MoE | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All respondents | 13% | 26% | 33% |
| Poll | Field dates | Mode | Respondents | Responses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SHED 2022 37 imputed values recoded to -1. | 2022-10-21 to 2022-11-01 | web | 11,667 | 5,742 |
| SHED 2021 41 imputed values recoded to -1. | 2021-11-01 to 2021-11-30 | web | 11,874 | 6,068 |
| SHED 2020 | 2020-11-01 to 2020-11-30 | web | 11,648 | 6,010 |
| SHED 2019 | 2019-10-01 to 2019-10-31 | web | 12,173 | 6,120 |
| SHED 2018 | 2018-10-01 to 2018-11-30 | web | 11,316 | 5,064 |
| SHED 2017 | 2017-11-01 to 2017-12-31 | web | 12,187 | 5,405 |
| SHED 2016 | 2016-10-01 to 2016-10-31 | web | 6,610 | 2,965 |
Shares of people who gave an answer. A group’s column is left blank in waves where its effective sample is under 50; hover for exact shares.
| 28% |
| 5742 |
| ±1 |
| 18–29 | 9% | 25% | 36% | 30% | 991 | ±3 |
| 30–44 | 14% | 26% | 32% | 28% | 1906 | ±2 |
| 45–64 | 13% | 27% | 33% | 28% | 2492 | ±2 |
| 65+ | 19% | 31% | 28% | 22% | 353 | ±6 |
SHED 2022 · US adults 18+. Shares of people who gave an answer. n is unweighted; ± is the 95% margin of error at 50% from the weighted effective sample. Groups with an effective sample under 50 are grayed; under 20, hidden.