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How confident households are that they can make their next rent or mortgage payment on time; the same question was asked under two Census Pulse variable names with slightly different labels.
AI-matched An AI model grouped these questions and mapped their answers onto shared categories, and a second AI review checked and corrected the grouping and mapping. No person has checked it: compare the question wordings and the answer mapping below before reading the lines against each other.
Latest: 11% answered “Slight confidence” in Household Pulse: Confidence in paying next rent or mortgage on time, 2022.
Shares of people whose answer maps onto these categories (non-answers and answers outside the scale are left out), because surveys differ in whether they offer “don’t know.” Each column is one survey wave, evenly spaced rather than to scale in time; hover for exact shares.
Groups differ from everyone by 16 points on average across all answers, in Household Pulse: Confidence in paying next rent or mortgage on time.
Groups differ from everyone by 12 points on average across all answers, in Household Pulse: Confidence in paying next rent or mortgage on time.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| Household Pulse: Confidence in paying next rent or mortgage on time | Confidence in paying next rent or mortgage on time How confident are you that your household will be able to pay your next rent or mortgage payment on time? Select only one answer. Caveat: Deferred payment option excluded; it is not a confidence level | identical | No confidence → No confidence; Slight confidence → Slight confidence; Moderate confidence → Moderate confidence; High confidence → High confidence |
| Household Pulse: Confidence in paying next rent or mortgage on time | Confidence in paying next rent or mortgage on time How confident are you that your household will be able to pay your next rent or mortgage payment on time? Select only one answer. Caveat: Labels slightly reworded (Not at all/Slightly/Moderately/Highly confident); deferred option excluded | equivalent | Not at all confident → No confidence; Slightly confident → Slight confidence; Moderately confident → Moderate confidence; Highly confident → High confidence |
Shares of people whose answer maps onto these categories (non-answers and answers outside the scale are left out), because surveys differ in whether they offer “don’t know.” Each point is one survey wave at the middle of its field period. Lines from different surveys are never spliced together.
Subgroup charts are picked automatically. Of every breakdown in the data (party, ideology, age, sex, race, education, income, region, religion, and community type), these two put their groups furthest from everyone’s answers: the gap is averaged across all answer categories and waves, with each group weighted by its share of respondents. Party and ideology count as one choice, so the second chart shows a different kind of split. Groups with an effective sample under 50 in a wave are left out of that wave, and changes run from each group’s first wave to its last.