Magazine general purchase recency
Indicates how recently an individual purchased magazines or magazine subscriptions across any category, including general magazines, regional culture and history magazines, men's interest magazines, and broad multi-interest magazine subscriptions. Known or imputed for 18.5 million individuals — 7.4% of Faraday's identity graph.
At a glance
- Coverage today
- 7.4%
- Typical coverage
- 8.9%
- Individuals with a value
- 18.5M
- Median
- 25 months
- Most values come
- from the person
- Latest collection
- May 1, 2026
Distribution
n = 18,500,582Share of individuals with a known value in each band. The middle 50% falls between 7 and 25 months, shaded darkest.
P10 means 10% of individuals have a value at or below this one, and P90 means 90% do. P25 and P75 bound the middle half. The median is the middle: half are below it, half above.
Median over time
25 months25 months → 25 months across 12 collections, shaded between P25 and P75. Estimated from a 1% sample of individuals.
What the delivered codes mean
5 codes
- 1
- 0-6 months
- 7
- 7-12 months
- 13
- 13-18 months
- 19
- 19-24 months
- 25
- 25 months+
Coverage
Latest collection: 229,689,060 individualsCoverage by state
Percentage of individuals in each state with a value.
Coverage over time
7.4% todayShare of individuals holding a value at each monthly snapshot. A value carries forward for one year.
How we arrive at a value
Whether a value was observed on the person themselves, carried from their address, or estimated from the people around them.
- On the person — 100%
- A named person, from a record about that person.
- From address — 0%
- Not used for this attribute — no value is inherited this way.
- From geography — 0%
- Not used for this attribute — no value is inherited this way.
Coverage, in context
Where 7.4% sits on the catalog’s own coverage range.
Higher coverage than 25% of individual-level attributes in the catalog
Freshness
How recently this was collected, and how often a new collection arrives. Each bar is the number of individuals in that collection. Gaps are real — collection is periodic, not continuous.
Change between collections
The share of individuals whose value is different from the previous collection.
of individuals changed value between the two most recent collections — 1.3× steadier than the catalog median of 13.5%.
Contribution ledger
13 ingestions
1 authority contributed since Jul 2023.
| Observed | Ingested | Count | ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-01 | 2026-09-10 | 266,506,942 | c5492806… |
| 2026-03-01 | 2026-07-01 | 264,096,977 | 1181277b… |
| 2026-02-01 | 2026-07-02 | 264,777,400 | af53c569… |
| 2025-12-01 | 2026-08-11 | 268,508,091 | 84d6a1c5… |
| 2025-11-01 | 2026-08-11 | 268,299,874 | a071c538… |
Technical details
- API name
- magazine_general_purchase_recency
- Category
- fig/lifestyle
- Type · unit
- Integer · months
- Statistical type
- ordinal
- Allowed values
- null
- Derivations
- null
- Directionality
- Higher number means the event occurred further in the past.
- Deprecation
- false
In a payload
{
"attributes": {
"magazine_general_purchase_recency": 25
}
}