Poverty - Experimental Measures

Supplemental Poverty Measure Public Use Research Files

These files enable researchers to replicate the estimates for the 2011 Supplemental Poverty Measure described in report P60-244 (The Research Supplemental Poverty Measure: 2011). All three files use Census 2010-based population controls. The 2009 and 2010 research files include tax estimates that differ slightly from those used to create the tables published in P60-241 (The Research Supplemental Poverty Measure: 2010).

2011 Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) Research File [SAS Data Set 69.6 MB – created using the 2012 CPS ASEC]

2010 Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) Research File [SAS Data Set 69.1 MB – created using the 2011 CPS ASEC] [Revised December 2012]

2009 Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) Research File [SAS Data Set 73.0 MB] [Revised December 2012]

Public-use files to replicate the NAS-based poverty measures described in report P60-227 (Alternative Poverty Estimates in the United States: 2003) are posted at http://www.census.gov/hhes/povmeas/data/public-use.html.

Extract files with replicate weights using the Census 2010-based population controls for the 2011 and 2010 CPS ASEC can be downloaded from http://www.census.gov/housing/extract_files/.