SURVEY OF CONSUMER FINANCES - PUBLISHED SUMMARY PACK
Version 1.0.0 | Consumer.info + NDS | Sponsored by Consumer Magazine
Edition: October 18, 2026
Source release: Federal Reserve Board, October 9, 2026
Survey years: 2022 and 2025

WHAT THIS IS
12 rows, 6 selected national measures, 2 survey years per measure.
A tidy transcription of published figures. This is NOT the full SCF household file, not private interview responses, and not a re-analysis of microdata.

FIELDS
indicator_id: Stable measure key.
label: Display name.
survey_year: Year identifying the survey cycle.
reference_year: Year the reported value refers to. Income refers to 2021 or 2024, the year before its survey.
value: Numeric published estimate.
unit: USD_2025 means inflation-adjusted 2025 dollars. percent is a 0-100 percentage, not a 0-1 fraction.
population: All SCF families or the asset-owner group shown.
source_url: Primary source URL.
source_location: Table or finding in the source.
source_release: Date of the official release.
version: This pack's version.
notes: Scope, rounding, and interpretation notes.

CLEANING & CHECKS
One row per indicator_id and survey_year. Required fields populated. Numeric types normalized. Source dates, units, groups, and reference periods preserved. 2022 net worth and income baselines follow tables 2 and 1 of the Federal Reserve report. No microdata weighting, imputation, or estimation was performed. Published percentage changes may differ from calculations on rounded displayed values.

LIMITS
National figures are not ZIP Code, county, or individual estimates. Medians are not additive. Home-equity and stock-value figures are conditional on holding the asset. This pack has no standard errors and does not support independent significance tests.

OFFICIAL MICRODATA
https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/scfindex.htm
For household-level research, follow the Federal Reserve's instructions for all five implicates, survey weights, and variance estimation. Do not count records as different families.

SOURCES
https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/other20261009a.htm
https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/scf26.pdf

REUSE
Use and share these published summary facts with credit to the Federal Reserve Board and Consumer.info / NDS. Preserve source and scope labels. Do not imply endorsement or exclusive ownership of official data. This is a free value-added summary; the underlying official public files are free.

Questions: Chris@Consumer.info
https://surveyofconsumerfinances.com/sources