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Whether people expect their household to be better off, the same, or worse off financially 12 months from now.
Latest: 27% answered “Better” in NY Fed Consumer Expectations, 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 (or one year’s average, for frequent series), 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 9 points on average across all answers.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| NY Fed Consumer Expectations | Expected finances a year from now And looking ahead, do you think you (and any family living with you) will be financially better or worse off 12 months from now than you are these days? Caveat: NY Fed panel of household heads; 5-point scale collapsed. | similar | Much worse off → Worse; Somewhat worse off → Worse; About the same → Same; Somewhat better off → Better; Much better off → Better |
Groups differ from everyone by 5 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.