2021 HRS Perspectives on the Pandemic Combined Spring and Fall Mail Survey

The 2021 Perspectives on the Pandemic mail-in survey was designed to assess the experiences of Health and Retirement (HRS) respondents during the first year of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Two versions of the questionnaire were fielded; the first in Spring 2021 and the second in Fall 2021. Originally these two data collections were issued for public use in separate releases. The 2021 HRS Perspectives on the Pandemic Combined Spring & Fall Mail Survey Samples data release contains all 11,571 respondents participating in either data collection; 8360 respondents from Spring 2021 and 3211 respondents from Fall 2021. The variable SEASON allows the user to differentiate between the two surveys. The combined data also contains a weight variable named CMWGTR.