U.S. Census Bureau
 Poverty Measurement Studies and  Alternative Measures



Measuring Poverty: New Research Findings -

Annual Meeting of the American Statistical Association, August 2009, Washington DC. Social Statistics Section, Section on Government Statistics, Organizer: Kathleen S. Short, U.S. Census Bureau

Chair(s): Rebecca M. Blank, Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, US Department of Commerce

Papers

Cohabitation and Child Care in a Poverty Measure
Kathleen S. Short, U.S. Census Bureau

Measuring MOOP with SIPP/MEPS
Sharon I. O'Donnell, U.S. Census Bureau

National Academy of Sciences--Based Poverty Thresholds: The Details of Alternatives and Choices in Specification
Thesia I. Garner, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Experimental Poverty Measures: Geographic Adjustments from the American Community Survey and BEA Price Parities
Trudi Renwick, U.S. Census Bureau

Discussion: Constance F. Citro, The National Academies


[PDF] or PDF denotes a file in Adobe’s Portable Document Format. To view the file, you will need the Adobe® Acrobat® Reader This link to a non-federal Web site does not imply endorsement of any particular product, company, or content. available free from Adobe.
Contact the Demographic Call Center Staff at 301-763-2422 or 1-866-758-1060 (toll free) or visit ask.census.gov for further information on Poverty Measurement Research Data.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division