Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 Page 40 Page 41 Page 42 Page 43 Page 44 Page 45 Page 46 Page 47 Page 48 Page 49 Page 50 Page 51 Page 52 Page 53 Page 54 Page 55 Page 56 Page 57 Page 58 Page 59 Page 60 Page 61 Page 62 Page 63 Page 64 Page 65 Page 66 Page 67 Page 68 Page 69 Page 70 Page 71 Page 72 Page 73 Page 74 Page 75 Page 76 Page 77 Page 78 Page 79 Page 80 Page 81 Page 82 Page 83 Page 84 Page 85 Page 86 Page 87 Page 88 Page 89 Page 90 Page 91 Page 92 Page 93 Page 94 Page 95 Page 96 Page 97 Page 98 Page 99 Page 100 Page 101 Page 102 Page 103 Page 104 Page 105 Page 106 Page 107 Page 10895 Brief Descriptions of Experimental Modules HRS 2002 (Wave 6) Modules Module 1: Self-assessed health utilities. Asks for a self-rating of health between 0 (death) and 100 (perfect health for your age/a 20-year-old), and then uses bracket-like techniques to assess willingness to trade years of life for perfect health, based on comparing two fictional persons with health similar to the respondent. Module 2: Willingness to pay for disease prevention. Assesses willingness to pay (dollars) for prevention of cancer or Alzheimer’s disease. Module 3: Restless leg syndrome, night leg cramps, and neck and shoulder pain. Measures symptoms of restless leg syndrome (associated with sleep problems and health consequences of sleep problems), night leg cramps, and neck and shoulder pain. Module 4: Risk aversion. Repeats previous module questions about large risk aversion to be paired with questions about small risk aversion asked in the main survey. Module 5: Internet use. Asks about computer and Internet access and use at work and at home. Module 6: Loneliness, stress, and social support/social burden. Assesses negative well-being in three of its dimensions. This module has twice the sample size of other modules, and hence also takes the place of Module 7. It is part of an analytic project under an NIA-funded program at the University of Chicago, developed in consultation with the HRS. Module 8: ELSA health questions. Provides a cross-reference between health items asked in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) and the HRS. Module 9: Numeracy. Tests additional numeracy items and uses a six-way design to test for con- text effects across four types of mathematical skills. Each math item is couched in three contexts—health, economic/market, and context-free—and respondents are assigned to pre-designated combinations so that they receive each math problem only once. It also overlaps with an ELSA proposal to develop numeracy measures for large surveys. Module 10: Positive well-being. Builds on the work of Powell Lawton and others to assess the extent of positive feelings about life and health. Module 11: Later life education. Asks about educational activities in later life. Module 12: Subjective uncertainty about stock market returns. Assesses the respondent’s full distribution of expectations of one-year stock market returns by asking for probabilities that the return would be above or below specified levels. HRS 2000 (Wave 5) Modules Module 1: Medicare knowledge. Asks questions and presents hypothetical situations to ascertain respondents’ knowledge about health main- tenance organization (HMO) and non-HMO Medicare and about sources of their information about Medicare. APPE N DIX A Module 2: Alternative medicine. Covers recent and past use of herbal or other dietary supplements and medications, treatments by chiropractors, massage therapists, or acupuncturists, and spiritual practices that may be related to health. Module 3: Planning and expectations for retirement. Asks about activities undertaken by respondents to plan for retirement; the questions are slightly different for those who are already fully retired than for those still anticipating full retirement. A subset of questions is designed to get at the propensity to plan ahead. Module 4: Economic altruism. Ascertains willingness to give regular financial assistance to relatives and friends at varying levels of need, as well as to charities. Module 5: Benevolence and obligation. Asks about the respondent’s self-perception as a giver to others, and his or her reasons for giving, especially as they relate to family members. Module 6: Request for health plan booklet. Requests the respondent’s health plan booklet to help assess the possibility of using this method to obtain details of health insurance coverage. Module 7: Health utilities index. Implements the Mark III version of the Health Utilities Index to assess problems with vision, hearing, mobility, hand and arm use, mental functioning, general discomfort, and outlook on life. Domain scores and overall utility preference scores can be computed.