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Reasons for working in retirement in the U.S. 2017

Published by Statista Research Department, Nov 23, 2020
This statistic presents the reasons for working in retirement in the United States in 2017. It was found that 60 percent of the respondents worked on retirement because they wanted to keep active/keep their brain alert.

Reasons for working in retirement in the United States in 2017

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Source

Release date

May 2017

Region

United States

Survey time period

February 2017

Number of respondents

16,000*

Special properties

employees and retired people.

Method of interview

Online survey

Supplementary notes

This question was phrased by the source as follows: "Which, if any, of the following are important reasons for you continuing to work to some extent in retirement?"
*The findings in this report are based on the responses of 14,400 employees and 1,600 retired people in 15 countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States.

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