Investment survey 2022
Single Wave Study
General Information
Title
Investment survey 2022
Project Number
384
Abstract
This is a survey on investments, among individuals who hold investment funds
or common stock.
Longitudinal Type
Single Wave Study
Begin date
07-11-2022
End date
29-11-2022
Researcher
Paul Schultz (University of Notre Dame)
Publisher
Centerdata
Copyright
© 2025 Centerdata
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57990/7fww-wv91
Funding Organization
OCW (Domeinplan SSH),
ODISSEI,
University of Notre Dame
Datasets and documentation
View Documentation
Codebook in English
Codebook in Dutch
Data Files
English SPSS file
English STATA file
English CSV file
Variables
| Variable name | Variable Label |
|---|---|
| nomem_encr | Number of the household member encrypted |
| aal22a_m | Year and month of the field work period |
| aal22a001 | Do you currently own stocks or investment funds? - Stocks |
| aal22a002 | Do you currently own stocks or investment funds? - Investment funds |
| aal22a003 | Have you owned stocks or investment funds during the last three years? - Stocks |
| aal22a004 | Have you owned stocks or investment funds during the last three years? - Investment funds |
| aal22a005 | Number of companies you currently have stock in: |
| aal22a006 | Number of investment funds: |
| aal22a007 | [Is/Was] your investment in stocks and or investment funds meant to build wealth or to provide returns to fund living expenses? |
| aal22a008 | Will you hold a stock for the long term if it pays a good dividend? |
| aal22a009 | [Do/Did] you sell stock regularly to meet living expenses? |
| aal22a010 | [Do/Did] you ever sell stock to pay for large expenditures? |
| aal22a011 | [Do/Did] you usually spend dividends or [do/did] you reinvest them or leave them in a bank or savings account? |
| aal22a012 | [Do/Did] you use dividends to pay for living expenses? |
| aal22a013 | [Do/Did] you spend interest that you receive or do you reinvest it or leave it in a bank or savings account? |
| aal22a014 | How important is it to you to preserve capital for future consumption or to pass on to your children or others? |
| aal22a015 | Do you worry about depleting your assets? |
| aal22a016 | [Do/Did] you believe you can spend dividends without depleting your assets? |
| aal22a017 | If a company pays dividends, I expect them to continue to pay dividends at the same rate in the future. |
| aal22a018 | I [am/was] concerned that spending dividends rather than reinvesting them [will/would] lead to depletion of my assets. |
| aal22a019 | I [avoid/avoided] selling stocks to fund consumption because I [want/wanted] to avoid depleting my assets. |
| aal22a020 | I [am/was] concerned that I [will/would] deplete my assets if I [sell/sold] stocks to pay for living expenses. |
| aal22a021 | If a stock that I hold stops paying dividends, I would sell it and buy another that does pay regular dividends. |
| aal22a022 | If a company increases its dividends, it means that the company will be more profitable in the future. |
| aal22a023 | Was it difficult to answer the questions? |
| aal22a024 | Were the questions sufficiently clear? |
| aal22a025 | Did the questionnaire get you thinking about things? |
| aal22a026 | Was it an interesting subject? |
| aal22a027 | Did you enjoy answering the questions? |
| aal22a028 | Starting date questionnaire |
| aal22a029 | Starting time questionnaire |
| aal22a030 | End date questionnaire |
| aal22a031 | End time questionnaire |
| aal22a032 | Duration in seconds |
Response Information
Response Overview
Selected number of household members: 1,192 (100.0%)Non-response: 167 (14.0%)
Response: 1,025 (86.0%)
Not in target group: 122 (10.2%)
Complete: 900 (75.5%)
Incomplete: 3 (0.3%)
Collection Events
Period
07-11-2022 to 29-11-2022
Sample
Panel members who indicated to have investments in 2019 or 2021. We used both the
Assets modules from 2020 and 2022 (administered in September – October), and selected panel
members who answered ‘yes’ to question ca20g006 or ca22h006, whether they have ‘Investments
(growth funds, share funds, bonds, debentures, stocks, options, warrants, and so on)’.
Collection Mode
Internet Survey
Fieldwork Note
A reminder was sent twice to non-respondents.