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. 2022 Feb 9;129:S35–S51. doi: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2022.02.004

Table 1.

Survey Respondent Characteristics. Notes: The column “Survey” represents characteristics in our survey. The column “US population” reports the value for the US population, as obtained from the US Census Bureau (Household income: CPS ASEC, 2021; gender, education: ACS, 2019, age, race, region: National Population Estimate, 2019).

Survey US population Survey US population
Age Race
18–34 33.11% 29.8% non-Hispanic white 72.75% 60.1%
35–55 33.82% 32.4% non-Hispanic black 9.29% 12.5%
>55 33.07% 37.8% Hispanic 10.08% 18.5%
Asian or other 7.88% 8.9%
Gender
female 49.92% 50.8% Household Income
male 49.69% 49.2% less than 50k$ 46.23% 37.8%
other 0.39% -% 50k$ - 100k$ 41.53% 28.6%
more than 100k$ 23.02% 33.6%
Region
Midwest 20.64% 20.7% Education
Northeast 21.86% 17.3% some college or less 50.62% 58.3%
South 39.54% 38.3% bachelor’s degree or more 49.38% 41.7%
West 17.96% 23.7%
N=60,003