# Books purchase recency

Recency in days since an individual's most recent book purchase, drawn from transactional category data.

- API name: `books_purchase_recency`
- Category: Lifestyle
- Type · unit: Integer · months
- Individuals with a value: 3.4M (1.3%)
- Latest collection: Jun 1, 2026, refreshed every two months
- How values combine: Read from a single source field.
- Middle 50% of values: 7 to 25 months
- Derivations:
  - Observed — the attribute is directly observed.

## Links

- [Catalog page](/catalog/v2/books_purchase_recency)
- [Published statistics (JSON)](https://static.faraday.ai/figv2/books_purchase_recency.json)
- [API reference](/docs/reference/getattribute)