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Which one of the following best describes your plan for retirement?
Plan for retirement · Asked in 2 waves, 2013–2014 · 6,180 responses · weighted estimates computed from individual responses
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 | I do not plan to retire |
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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.
| Work fewer hours as I get close to retirement |
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| Retire from my current career, but then find a different full-time job |
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| Retire from my current career, but then find a different part-time job |
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| Retire from my current career, but then work for myself |
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| Work full time until I retire, then stop working altogether |
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| Keep working as long as possible |
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| Other (Please specify) |
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| MoE |
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| All respondents | 12% | 9% | 2% | 12% | 8% | 21% | 26% | 11% | 4414 | ±2 | |
| Less than high school | 21% | 13% | 0% | 5% | 2% | 11% | 25% | 24% | 276 | ±8 | |
| High school | 18% | 7% | 2% | 10% | 5% | 18% | 27% | 13% | 1266 | ±4 | |
| Some college | 10% | 10% | 2% | 12% | 7% | 19% | 30% | 10% | 1460 | ±3 | |
| Bachelor's | 8% | 8% | 4% | 14% | 11% | 29% | 19% | 6% | 911 | ±4 | |
| Postgraduate | 7% | 8% | 3% | 18% | 14% | 24% | 20% | 6% | 501 | ±5 |
SHED 2014 · 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.