Households with children by how most of the “Child Tax Credit” payment was used in the United States

Definitions: The percentage of households with children who mostly spent, mostly saved, or mostly used the CTC to pay off deft. Only those respondents who reported that someone in the household had received a “Child Tax Credit” payment in the past four weeks and provided a valid response are included.

Data Source: Population Reference Bureau analysis of the U.S. Census Bureau, Household Pulse Survey, 2021-2022

Footnotes: Updated March 2022
S - Estimates suppressed when the effective sample size is less than 30 or the 90% confidence interval is greater than 30 percentage points or 1.3 times the estimate.
A 90 percent confidence interval for each estimate can be found at
Households with children by how most of the “Child Tax Credit” payment was used.

Definitions: The percentage of households with children who mostly spent, mostly saved, or mostly used the CTC to pay off deft. Only those respondents who reported that someone in the household had received a “Child Tax Credit” payment in the past four weeks and provided a valid response are included.

Data Source: Population Reference Bureau analysis of the U.S. Census Bureau, Household Pulse Survey, 2021-2022

Footnotes: Updated March 2022
S - Estimates suppressed when the effective sample size is less than 30 or the 90% confidence interval is greater than 30 percentage points or 1.3 times the estimate.
A 90 percent confidence interval for each estimate can be found at
Households with children by how most of the “Child Tax Credit” payment was used.