Households with children by the types of spending the “Child Tax Credit” payment was used on in United States

Households with children by the types of spending the “Child Tax Credit” payment was used on

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Note: Non-consecutive years appear adjacent in the trend line
because one or more years have been deselected.

Definition and Source

PROVIDER

Definition

The percentage of households with children who spent the CTC on different types of household and personal expenses and savings. Respondents were asked to report any spending across 17 categories. Only those categories with at least 10% of households are reported above. Only those respondents who reported that someone in the household had received a “Child Tax Credit” payment in the past four weeks and provided a valid response are included.

Data Source

Population Reference Bureau analysis of the U.S. Census Bureau, Household Pulse Survey, 2021-2022

Notes

Updated March 2022
S - Estimates suppressed when the effective sample size is less than 30 or the 90% confidence interval is greater than 30 percentage points or 1.3 times the estimate.
A 90 percent confidence interval for each estimate can be found at
Households with children by the types of spending the “Child Tax Credit” payment was used on.

Last Updated

March 2022

Location

Households with children by the types of spending the “Child Tax Credit” payment was used on in United States