The Supplemental Poverty Measure: 2016

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The Supplemental Poverty Measure: 2016

September 21, 2017

Report Number P60-261

Trudi Renwick and Liana Fox

Erratum Note

The U.S. Census Bureau identified an error in the input of SPM thresholds for renters used in the 2016 SPM data products. The base threshold should have been $26,104 and was erroneously entered as $26,014. This error affected the SPM poverty status for 109 unweighted observations. As a result, the overall SPM poverty rate was understated by 0.06 percentage points—13.91 in published tables compared to 13.97 percent. Corrected tables, research files, and a revised report have all been reissued.

This Erratum Table provides a comparison of the revised SPM 2016 estimates to the previously published SPM 2016 estimates for all groups included in Table A-1 of the report.

Erratum Table - Number and Percentage of People in Poverty Using the Supplemental Poverty Measure: 2016 revised and 2016 [<1.0MB]

Tables

Table A-1. Number and Percentage of People in Poverty Using the Supplemental Poverty measure: 2016 and 2015 [<1.0MB]

Table A-2. Number and Percentage of People in Poverty by Different Poverty Measures: 2016 [<1.0MB]

Table A-3. Two-Adult-Two-Child Poverty Thresholds: 2015 and 2016 [<1.0MB]

Table A-4. Percentage of People by Ratio of Income/Resources to Poverty Threshold: 2016 and 2015 [<1.0MB]

Table A-5. Number and Percentage of People in Poverty by State Using 3-Year Average Over: 2014, 2015, and 2016 [<1.0MB]

Table A-6. Effect of Individual Elements on SPM Rates: 2016 and 2015 [<1.0MB]

Table A-7. Effect of Individual Elements on the Number of Individuals in Poverty: 2016 and 2015 [<1.0MB]

Table A-8. Individual and Combined Impact of Changes to the SPM: 2015 [<1.0MB]

SPM Thresholds by Metro Area: 2016 [<1.0MB]

Related Information

PUBLICATION

The Supplemental Poverty Measure: 2016

TABLE

Supplemental Poverty Measure Data Tables

Last Revised: October 8, 2021

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