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Ryerson Project Item 55

I believe home ownership is an important part of financial security.

American adults' average (mean) response was 7.61 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 134 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-07-25.

Descriptive Statistics

Mean7.61
Median8.00
Standard deviation2.22
N134
Standard error0.192

All-Time Distribution

Response 0: 3 Response 1: 0 Response 2: 2 Response 3: 2 Response 4: 3 Response 5: 10 Response 6: 13 Response 7: 21 Response 8: 31 Response 9: 15 Response 10: 34 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0 34 Response value Count

Comparison to Other Items

Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 24 out of 134 qualifying items and is at the 82.7 percentile.

Qualifying items have 100 or more total observations. Higher means indicate more agreement and therefore a higher rank.

Monthly Trend

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0% 50% 100% 0 5 10 2026-05 response 0: 2.2% 2026-05 response 1: 0.0% 2026-05 response 2: 0.0% 2026-05 response 3: 2.2% 2026-05 response 4: 2.2% 2026-05 response 5: 8.7% 2026-05 response 6: 8.7% 2026-05 response 7: 8.7% 2026-05 response 8: 26.1% 2026-05 response 9: 19.6% 2026-05 response 10: 21.7% 2026-06 response 0: 1.8% 2026-06 response 1: 0.0% 2026-06 response 2: 1.8% 2026-06 response 3: 1.8% 2026-06 response 4: 3.6% 2026-06 response 5: 5.5% 2026-06 response 6: 10.9% 2026-06 response 7: 20.0% 2026-06 response 8: 23.6% 2026-06 response 9: 5.5% 2026-06 response 10: 25.5% 2026-07 response 0: 3.0% 2026-07 response 1: 0.0% 2026-07 response 2: 3.0% 2026-07 response 3: 0.0% 2026-07 response 4: 0.0% 2026-07 response 5: 9.1% 2026-07 response 6: 9.1% 2026-07 response 7: 18.2% 2026-07 response 8: 18.2% 2026-07 response 9: 9.1% 2026-07 response 10: 30.3% May 2026 Jun 2026 Jul 2026 Observation month Percent of responses Monthly mean

Observed Trend

Observations suggest unchanging agreement over the observed period, from 2026-05-01 to 2026-07-25. The estimated change over that period is -0.063 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-1.475, 1.349].
Regression table

The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -0.270 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-6.337, 5.796]. This short-window annualized number is provided for reference, but the observed-period change above is the primary trend estimate.

Call:
lm(formula = response_value ~ days_since_start, data = model_data)

Residuals:
    Min      1Q  Median      3Q     Max 
-7.6277 -0.6414  0.3841  2.1243  2.4189 

Coefficients:
                   Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)       7.6425394  0.3969798  19.252   <2e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.0007401  0.0083969  -0.088     0.93    
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Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 2.229 on 132 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  5.885e-05,	Adjusted R-squared:  -0.007516 
F-statistic: 0.007769 on 1 and 132 DF,  p-value: 0.9299