Credit card - Is the money you owe for your child's or grandchild’s education a student loan, home equity loan, credit card debt, or some other type of loan?
Child's education debt is credit card debt · Asked in 6 waves, 2016–2021 · 3,313 responses · weighted estimates computed from individual responses
Shares of people who gave an answer. Each column is one wave, evenly spaced rather than to scale in time; hover for exact shares.
Shares of people who gave an answer. A group’s column is left blank in waves where its effective sample is under 50; hover for exact shares.
| Group | No | Yes | n | MoE | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All respondents | 88% | 12% | 583 | ±4 | |
| 30–44 † | 78% | 22% | 42 | ±17 | |
| 45–64 |
| Poll | Field dates | Mode | Respondents | Responses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SHED 2021 28 imputed values recoded to -1. | 2021-11-01 to 2021-11-30 | web | 11,874 | 583 |
| SHED 2020 | 2020-11-01 to 2020-11-30 | web | 11,648 | 564 |
| SHED 2019 | 2019-10-01 to 2019-10-31 | web | 12,173 | 661 |
| SHED 2018 | 2018-10-01 to 2018-11-30 | web | 11,316 | 543 |
| SHED 2017 | 2017-11-01 to 2017-12-31 | web | 12,187 | 639 |
| SHED 2016 | 2016-10-01 to 2016-10-31 | web | 6,610 | 323 |
| 88% |
| 12% |
| 428 |
| ±5 |
| 65+ | 94% | 6% | 113 | ±10 |
SHED 2021 · US adults 18+. Shares of people who gave an answer. n is unweighted; ± is the 95% margin of error at 50% from the weighted effective sample. Groups with an effective sample under 50 are grayed; under 20, hidden.