Overview
This document contains supplemental information to the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households in 2021 report, which summarizes the results from the Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking (SHED) fielded in November 2021. This is the ninth year of the survey, conducted annually by staff in the Board's Division of Consumer and Community Affairs each fall since 2013.
Appendix A of this supplement reflects the complete questionnaire used in administering the 2021 SHED. (For more details on the survey mode and sample, see the "Description of the Survey" section of the full report, available at www.federalreserve.gov/consumerscommunities/shed.htm.)
Appendix B presents the responses to all the 2021 survey questions in the order that the questions were asked of respondents, as well as a summary of the demographic statistics of survey respondents.
For additional details on the SHED, including data and reports of survey findings from all past years, see www.federalreserve.gov/consumerscommunities/shed.htm.