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What percentage of retired Americans say a health problem was important in their decision to retire when they did?
28.4% of retired Americans say a health problem was important in their decision to retire when they did - about 28 in every 100, or 3 in 10. That is the figure published by the Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking for 2025.
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Where this number comes from
- Survey
- Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking
- What it measured
- SHED 2025 item K9_a (“Health problem - Were each of the following important to your decision to retire at the age that you did?”), counting responses 1=Yes, among adults who consider themselves retired (D1I = Yes). Computed from the Federal Reserve's public-use microdata with its post-stratification weight WEIGHT. The public file has no design variables or replicate weights, so the standard error follows the Fed's documented design effect: SE = √(deff · p(1−p)/n), deff = 1.14 (the Fed's 1.14, or the Kish design effect of these weights if larger); unweighted n = 4,194.
- Population
- retired U.S. adults
- Year
- 2025
- 95% confidence interval
- 26.94% to 29.86% (derived from the published standard error)
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, public-use data (doi:10.17016/datasets.002). Percentages computed here, with attribution.. See the source data
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