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How likely respondents are to apply for Social Security, SSI, or Medicare benefits; one version asks about the next 12 months and the other about 2021.
AI-matched An AI model grouped these questions and mapped their answers onto shared categories, and a second AI review checked and corrected the grouping and mapping. No person has checked it: compare the question wordings and the answer mapping below before reading the lines against each other.
Latest: 93% answered “Not at all likely” in Household Pulse: Likelihood of applying for benefits during 2021, 2021.
Shares of everyone asked, including non-answers. Each column is one survey wave (or one year’s average, for frequent series), evenly spaced rather than to scale in time; hover for exact shares.
Shares of everyone asked, including non-answers. Each point is one survey wave at the middle of its field period. Lines from different surveys are never spliced together.
Groups differ from everyone by 3 points on average across all answers, in Household Pulse: Likelihood of applying for Social Security, SSI, or Medicare.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| Household Pulse: Likelihood of applying for Social Security, SSI, or Medicare | Likelihood of applying for Social Security, SSI, or Medicare How likely are you to apply for Social Security benefits (Retirement, Disability, or Survivors), Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits, or Medicare benefits in the next 12 months? Select only one answer. Caveat: Reference version; time frame is the next 12 months | identical | Extremely likely → Extremely likely; Very likely → Very likely; Somewhat likely → Somewhat likely; Not at all likely → Not at all likely |
| Household Pulse: Likelihood of applying for benefits during 2021 | Likelihood of applying for benefits during 2021 How likely are you to apply for Social Security benefits (Retirement, Disability, or Survivors), Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits, or Medicare benefits during 2021? Select only one answer. Caveat: Time frame is calendar year 2021 rather than next 12 months, so the window may be shorter | equivalent | Extremely likely → Extremely likely; Very likely → Very likely; Somewhat likely → Somewhat likely; Not at all likely → Not at all likely |
Groups differ from everyone by 3 points on average across all answers, in Household Pulse: Likelihood of applying for Social Security, SSI, or Medicare.
Subgroup charts are picked automatically. Of every breakdown in the data (party, ideology, age, sex, race, education, income, region, religion, and community type), these two put their groups furthest from everyone’s answers: the gap is averaged across all answer categories and waves, with each group weighted by its share of respondents. Party and ideology count as one choice, so the second chart shows a different kind of split. Groups with an effective sample under 50 in a wave are left out of that wave.