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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 6
Consumer bankruptcy filings and the inflation-adjusted amount of revolving credit per household, 1980-2005
Year and quarter Credit (thousands of 2005 dollars) Share of households filing
(percent)
1980:1 1.61 0.31
1980:2 1.50 0.37
1980:3 1.46 0.38
1980:4 1.46 0.38
1981:1 1.46 0.38
1981:2 1.43 0.40
1981:3 1.44 0.39
1981:4 1.48 0.38
1982:1 1.46 0.36
1982:2 1.43 0.38
1982:3 1.46 0.38
1982:4 1.50 0.37
1983:1 1.48 0.35
1983:2 1.49 0.36
1983:3 1.54 0.33
1983:4 1.66 0.33
1984:1 1.70 0.34
1984:2 1.77 0.34
1984:3 1.86 0.33
1984:4 2.01 0.33
1985:1 2.09 0.34
1985:2 2.15 0.39
1985:3 2.22 0.41
1985:4 2.37 0.44
1986:1 2.42 0.47
1986:2 2.44 0.52
1986:3 2.47 0.53
1986:4 2.56 0.53
1987:1 2.54 0.53
1987:2 2.57 0.55
1987:3 2.65 0.56
1987:4 2.77 0.57
1988:1 2.81 0.60
1988:2 2.81 0.61
1988:3 2.85 0.61
1988:4 2.99 0.61
1989:1 2.99 0.63
1989:2 3.02 0.69
1989:3 3.09 0.66
1989:4 3.22 0.70
1990:1 3.25 0.72
1990:2 3.26 0.77
1990:3 3.38 0.76
1990:4 3.51 0.83
1991:1 3.48 0.91
1991:2 3.51 0.97
1991:3 3.56 0.91
1991:4 3.69 0.92
1992:1 3.64 0.99
1992:2 3.59 0.98
1992:3 3.61 0.92
1992:4 3.72 0.89
1993:1 3.72 0.86
1993:2 3.71 0.89
1993:3 3.80 0.83
1993:4 3.99 0.80
1994:1 4.03 0.80
1994:2 4.12 0.84
1994:3 4.30 0.81
1994:4 4.56 0.82
1995:1 4.67 0.78
1995:2 4.79 0.91
1995:3 5.01 0.90
1995:4 5.32 0.94
1996:1 5.40 1.02
1996:2 5.50 1.14
1996:3 5.63 1.17
1996:4 5.86 1.20
1997:1 5.89 1.29
1997:2 5.85 1.41
1997:3 5.94 1.35
1997:4 6.10 1.33
1998:1 6.03 1.35
1998:2 6.20 1.42
1998:3 6.20 1.37
1998:4 6.35 1.34
1999:1 6.35 1.25
1999:2 6.33 1.30
1999:3 6.43 1.22
1999:4 6.53 1.19
2000:1 6.51 1.16
2000:2 6.61 1.20
2000:3 6.80 1.15
2000:4 7.07 1.15
2001:1 7.07 1.35
2001:2 7.09 1.47
2001:3 7.05 1.31
2001:4 7.09 1.31
2002:1 7.03 1.36
2002:2 7.03 1.44
2002:3 7.07 1.44
2002:4 7.14 1.41
2003:1 7.09 1.47
2003:2 7.08 1.56
2003:3 7.05 1.46
2003:4 7.11 1.38
2004:1 7.04 1.42
2004:2 6.92 1.48
2004:3 7.03 1.39
2004:4 7.23 1.31
2005:1 7.13 1.41
2005:2 7.06 1.64
2005:3 7.10 1.90
2005:4 7.19 2.33

Note: The data are quarterly at an annual rate.

Source: Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, Census Bureau, and Federal Reserve Board data and staff estimates.

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