Talk:Surveys of retirement spending

--Linuxizer 03:45, 6 August 2011 (EDT) Looks great guys. One niggle is that both surveys (CES and HRS) are called "longitudinal." This term usually refers to studies in which the same people are followed over periods of time (often also called a "panel" study). To an academic, this is not a mere academic distinction! Off the top of my head, I believe the HRS uses a panel design but the CES does not.

''I'll check into the details of both surveys and add comments about the nature of the respondents being followed over time. My impression is that you are correct. But I didn't spend much time delving into the survey mechanics. Since you think it's important, others will too!''--ThePrune 10:54, 6 August 2011 (EDT)

''Sections describing the CE and HRS survey methodologies have been added. The difference was indeed as you described. If you think more detail needs to be added, I'll leave it to you''.--ThePrune 16:42, 6 August 2011 (EDT)

--Linuxizer 03:48, 6 August 2011 (EDT) The discussion of spending trends related to healthcare is a bit strange, since there is no mention of the role of Medicare. Does total health spending drop, or merely the share of spending paid for by the individual? If the latter, shouldn't we see a change in spending at age 65 (either because generous employer coverage goes away and the 20% Medicare copay starts hitting, or because less generous employer/individual coverage is replaced with Medicare+Medigap), and if so why isn't that discussed?

''The CE and HRS databases do have detailed breakdowns for the types of medical spending. The tables in this article only contain the overall medical spending percentages. I was not as concerned about including deep medical spending details in this article since I plan a separate Wiki on just medical spending. That one's going to be a challange to write! Once both are written, everyone gets to help rearrange how "the facts" are distributed among the articles. In all likelihood some duplication of information between the articles will prove useful''.--ThePrune 10:54, 6 August 2011 (EDT)

This is the first of an article series on retirement spending, authored by User:ThePrune. I'm helping with the administrative details. The last article will be on medical spending.

There will be a top-level summary page (pending) with links to the pages below. --LadyGeek 09:09, 6 August 2011 (EDT)
 * Studies of Retirement Spending (this page)
 * Replacement Rate Models of Retirement Spending (pending)
 * General Models of Retirement Spending (pending)
 * Inflation and Retirement Spending (pending)
 * Medical Spending in Retirement (pending)

A few administrative comments:

This article was created from ThePrune's Word file using the Word to Wiki Converter. It uses a very conservative approach, which can result in superflous  tags. I removed a few of them manually.

For future articles, this converter can handle complicated tables. It will also translate footnotes directly into the citation tags for the wiki; there's no reason to do this manually. Take a look at: Word to Wiki Converter Example

The Table of Contents is automatically generated by the wiki, there's no need for one in the Word file.

--LadyGeek 11:19, 7 August 2011 (EDT)