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SHED: whether the respondent is living comfortably or doing okay financially, versus just getting by or finding it difficult.
Latest: 73% answered “At least okay” in Fed SHED, 2025.
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.
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.
Groups differ from everyone by 14 points on average across all answers.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fed SHED | How well managing financially these days Overall, which one of the following best describes how well you are managing financially these days? | identical | Finding it difficult to get by → Struggling; Just getting by → Struggling; Doing okay → At least okay; Living comfortably → At least okay |
Groups differ from everyone by 9 points on average across all answers.
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.