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What percentage of American adults say price increases over the past year have made their finances worse?
57.6% of American adults say price increases over the past year have made their finances worse - about 58 in every 100, or 6 in 10. That is the figure published by the Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking for 2025.
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57.6
Where this number comes from
- Survey
- Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking
- What it measured
- SHED 2025 item INF4 (“Overall, have changes in the prices you pay compared to last year made your financial situation worse, better, or had little to no effect?”), counting responses 1=Much worse, 2=Somewhat worse. Computed from the Federal Reserve's public-use microdata with its post-stratification weight WEIGHT. The public file has no design variables or replicate weights, so the standard error follows the Fed's documented design effect: SE = √(deff · p(1−p)/n), deff = 1.144 (the Fed's 1.14, or the Kish design effect of these weights if larger); unweighted n = 12,934.
- Population
- U.S. adults aged 18 and over
- Year
- 2025
- 95% confidence interval
- 56.69% to 58.51% (derived from the published standard error)
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, public-use data (doi:10.17016/datasets.002). Percentages computed here, with attribution.. See the source data
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