42% Owe Less Money Than A Year Ago
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Americans are a lot less in debt than they were a year ago, but their outlook on interest rates hasn't changed much.
Forty-two percent (42%) of U.S. Adults now say they owe less money than they did 12 months ago. That's up from 33% last month and the highest finding in regular surveys since April 2009. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just half as many (21%) say they owe more than they did a year ago, while 33% say their level of debt is about the same. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
The survey of 1,000 Adults was conducted on February 9-10, 2013 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.