Trends in family wealth, 1989 to 2013.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Karamcheva, Nadia

United States. Congressional Budget Office, issuing body, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Income distribution--United States--Statistics.

Income distribution.

Households--United States--Statistics.

Households.

Wealth--United States--Statistics.

Wealth.

United States.

Genre:

Online resources.

Statistics

Physical Description:

1 online resource (19, [2] pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : Congress of the United States, Congressional Budget Office, 2016.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

In 2013, aggregate family wealth in the United States was $67 trillion (or about four times the nation's gross domestic product) and the median family (the one at the midpoint of the wealth distribution) held approximately $81,000, the Congressional Budget Office estimates. The distribution of wealth among the nation's famlies was more unequal in 2013 than it had been in 1989.

Contents:

Summary and Introduction.

How Is the Nation's Wealth Distributed?

How Did the Distribution of Wealth Change From 1989 to 2013?

How Did Changes in Families' Assets and Debt Contribute to Changes in the Wealth Distribution From 1989 to 2013?

What Sources of Data Did CBO Use?

Exhibits.

1. Holdings of Family Wealth, by Wealth Group.

2. Wealth for Families at Selected Percentiles of the Distribution.

3. Average Wealth for Families in the 51st to 90th Percentiles of the Wealth Distribution.

4. Changes in the Assets and Debt of Families in the 51st to 90th Percentiles of the Wealth Distribution.

5. Average Wealth for Families in the 26th to 50th Percentiles of the Wealth Distribution.

6. Changes in the Assets and Debt of Families in the 26th to 50th Percentiles of the Wealth Distribution.

7. Average Wealth for Families in the Bottom 25 Percent of the Wealth Distribution.

8. Changes in the Assets and Debt of Families in the Bottom 25 Percent of the Wealth Distribution.

9. Share of Families in Debt and Average Indebtedness for Those Families.

10. Median Family Wealth, by Age Group.

11. Median Family Wealth, by Education Group.

Appendix: Data, Measures of Wealth, and Previous Analyses of Income.

Definitions.

About This Document.

Notes:

Online resource; title from PDF title screen (CBO, viewed on April 25, 2017).

"Nadia Karamcheva prepared the report with guidance from Molly Dahl and Joseph Kile"--Final (unnumbered) page

"August 2016."

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

957595549