Table 2.
Distribution of Risk Category Based on Second Response by Risk Category Based on First Response
| Risk Category, First Response | Women: Risk Category, Second Response |
Men: Risk Category, Second Response |
||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | All | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | All | |
| 1 | 67.5 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 10.6 | [49.8] | 64.1 | 8.8 | 12.6 | 14.6 | [44.7] |
| 2 | 53.0 | 18.9 | 16.5 | 11.6 | [13.4] | 47.3 | 16.9 | 17.8 | 18.1 | [12.4] |
| 3 | 49.5 | 11.7 | 21.5 | 17.3 | [17.2] | 48.6 | 13.4 | 21.5 | 16.5 | [17.9] |
| 4 | 46.6 | 11.9 | 17.0 | 24.5 | [19.5] | 43.2 | 9.8 | 19.3 | 27.7 | [26.1] |
| All | 58.4 | 11.9 | 15.1 | 14.6 | [100.0] | 53.9 | 10.8 | 16.5 | 18.7 | [100.0] |
| Number of Individuals | 1,686 | 334 | 435 | 422 | 2,887 | 1,573 | 316 | 482 | 547 | 2,918 |
Notes: Risk categories are based on responses to income gamble questions asked in 1993, 2002, and 2004. Samples exclude 327 women and 380 men who respond only once. Categories 1 and 4 consist, respectively, of the least and most risk tolerant individuals. Numbers in brackets are percentages of column totals, and all other numbers are percentages of row totals.