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Report to the Congress on Practices of the Consumer
Credit Industry in Soliciting and Extending Credit
and their Effects on Consumer Debt and Insolvency
Submitted to the Congress pursuant to section 1229 of
the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005
June 2006
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Data table for figure 5
Consumer bankruptcy filings, 1980-2005
| Year and quarter |
Number of filings (thousands) |
Share of households filing (percent) |
| 1980:1 |
238.55 |
0.31 |
| 1980:2 |
295.28 |
0.37 |
| 1980:3 |
306.45 |
0.38 |
| 1980:4 |
310.11 |
0.38 |
| 1981:1 |
311.72 |
0.38 |
| 1981:2 |
323.38 |
0.40 |
| 1981:3 |
318.02 |
0.39 |
| 1981:4 |
310.31 |
0.38 |
| 1982:1 |
300.38 |
0.36 |
| 1982:2 |
317.06 |
0.38 |
| 1982:3 |
313.52 |
0.38 |
| 1982:4 |
313.08 |
0.37 |
| 1983:1 |
290.10 |
0.35 |
| 1983:2 |
302.96 |
0.36 |
| 1983:3 |
278.25 |
0.33 |
| 1983:4 |
274.56 |
0.33 |
| 1984:1 |
286.39 |
0.34 |
| 1984:2 |
287.82 |
0.34 |
| 1984:3 |
284.80 |
0.33 |
| 1984:4 |
278.22 |
0.33 |
| 1985:1 |
291.51 |
0.34 |
| 1985:2 |
336.97 |
0.39 |
| 1985:3 |
350.88 |
0.41 |
| 1985:4 |
385.50 |
0.44 |
| 1986:1 |
412.35 |
0.47 |
| 1986:2 |
457.54 |
0.52 |
| 1986:3 |
464.15 |
0.53 |
| 1986:4 |
464.82 |
0.53 |
| 1987:1 |
474.31 |
0.53 |
| 1987:2 |
490.76 |
0.55 |
| 1987:3 |
495.47 |
0.56 |
| 1987:4 |
509.64 |
0.57 |
| 1988:1 |
534.85 |
0.60 |
| 1988:2 |
552.98 |
0.61 |
| 1988:3 |
554.24 |
0.61 |
| 1988:4 |
556.86 |
0.61 |
| 1989:1 |
578.84 |
0.63 |
| 1989:2 |
631.82 |
0.69 |
| 1989:3 |
610.78 |
0.66 |
| 1989:4 |
645.62 |
0.70 |
| 1990:1 |
666.78 |
0.72 |
| 1990:2 |
719.77 |
0.77 |
| 1990:3 |
709.40 |
0.76 |
| 1990:4 |
775.49 |
0.83 |
| 1991:1 |
851.65 |
0.91 |
| 1991:2 |
911.41 |
0.97 |
| 1991:3 |
856.70 |
0.91 |
| 1991:4 |
868.64 |
0.92 |
| 1992:1 |
935.89 |
0.99 |
| 1992:2 |
930.63 |
0.98 |
| 1992:3 |
880.08 |
0.92 |
| 1992:4 |
848.45 |
0.89 |
| 1993:1 |
825.08 |
0.86 |
| 1993:2 |
851.93 |
0.89 |
| 1993:3 |
801.31 |
0.83 |
| 1993:4 |
770.47 |
0.80 |
| 1994:1 |
770.83 |
0.80 |
| 1994:2 |
810.38 |
0.84 |
| 1994:3 |
781.23 |
0.81 |
| 1994:4 |
798.01 |
0.82 |
| 1995:1 |
758.78 |
0.78 |
| 1995:2 |
888.34 |
0.91 |
| 1995:3 |
883.78 |
0.90 |
| 1995:4 |
926.41 |
0.94 |
| 1996:1 |
1,011.04 |
1.02 |
| 1996:2 |
1,132.68 |
1.14 |
| 1996:3 |
1,160.44 |
1.17 |
| 1996:4 |
1,192.98 |
1.20 |
| 1997:1 |
1,284.97 |
1.29 |
| 1997:2 |
1,412.71 |
1.41 |
| 1997:3 |
1,360.24 |
1.35 |
| 1997:4 |
1,340.13 |
1.33 |
| 1998:1 |
1,366.83 |
1.35 |
| 1998:2 |
1,447.63 |
1.42 |
| 1998:3 |
1,403.44 |
1.37 |
| 1998:4 |
1,372.88 |
1.34 |
| 1999:1 |
1,286.42 |
1.25 |
| 1999:2 |
1,342.31 |
1.30 |
| 1999:3 |
1,258.26 |
1.22 |
| 1999:4 |
1,238.46 |
1.19 |
| 2000:1 |
1,211.52 |
1.16 |
| 2000:2 |
1,251.82 |
1.20 |
| 2000:3 |
1,202.03 |
1.15 |
| 2000:4 |
1,207.02 |
1.15 |
| 2001:1 |
1,426.34 |
1.35 |
| 2001:2 |
1,562.05 |
1.47 |
| 2001:3 |
1,406.49 |
1.31 |
| 2001:4 |
1,414.03 |
1.31 |
| 2002:1 |
1,476.95 |
1.36 |
| 2002:2 |
1,563.96 |
1.44 |
| 2002:3 |
1,567.49 |
1.44 |
| 2002:4 |
1,542.52 |
1.41 |
| 2003:1 |
1,616.62 |
1.47 |
| 2003:2 |
1,723.70 |
1.56 |
| 2003:3 |
1,618.17 |
1.46 |
| 2003:4 |
1,540.22 |
1.38 |
| 2004:1 |
1,588.02 |
1.42 |
| 2004:2 |
1,651.44 |
1.48 |
| 2004:3 |
1,555.46 |
1.39 |
| 2004:4 |
1,455.56 |
1.31 |
| 2005:1 |
1,572.34 |
1.41 |
| 2005:2 |
1,834.39 |
1.64 |
| 2005:3 |
2,130.10 |
1.90 |
| 2005:4 |
2,618.53 |
2.33 |
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Note: The data are quarterly at an annual rate.
Source: For number of filings, Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts; for share of households filing, Census Bureau and staff estimates of the Federal Reserve Board.
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