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How the Census Bureau Measures Income and Poverty
Wed Sep 04 2019
Written by: Trudi Renwick, Social, Economic and Housing Statistics Division
Component ID: #ti687865346
Income, poverty and health insurance statistics from the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement, known as CPS ASEC, are released every September. One-year statistics from the 2018 American Community Survey will also be released later in September.
This entry was posted on Wed Sep 04 2019 and filed under American Community Survey (ACS), Current Population Survey (CPS), Income and Poverty.
Archive for 'September 2016'
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Fri Sep 30 2016
Times change and fortunately, we have a system in place that enables us to accurately portray the nation’s rapidly evolving economy in our country’s official statistics.
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Wed Sep 14 2016
Today, the U.S. Census Bureau is releasing a tool to look at the history of health insurance coverage in the United States: an animated map showing changes in uninsured rates by state, going back to 2008.
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Tue Sep 13 2016
Estimates released today from the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC) show real median household income in 2015 was $56,516, a 5.2 percent increase from the 2014 median in real terms.
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Tue Sep 13 2016
Estimates released today from the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC) show the official poverty rate in the United States declined to 13.5 percent in 2015, a 1.2 percentage point drop from 2014.
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Tue Sep 13 2016
In the last half decade, young adults (ages 19 to 25) gained health insurance coverage more than any other age group (Figure 1).
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Tue Sep 13 2016
Today the U.S. Census Bureau, in collaboration with the Bureau of Labor Statistics, released its sixth annual supplemental poverty measure report.
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Fri Sep 09 2016
Statistics from the American Community Survey provide information on grandparents living with their grandchildren, including those who have primary care of them.
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Thu Sep 08 2016
Next week, the U.S. Census Bureau is releasing two important sources for health insurance statistics in the United States: the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Population Survey and the American Community Survey.
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Thu Sep 08 2016
Income, poverty and health insurance statistics for 2015 from the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC) will be released Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016. One-year statistics from the 2015 American Community Survey (ACS) will be released on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016.
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Thu Sep 08 2016
You may have heard public officials or the media talk recently about the poverty rate in America. In advance of the U.S. Census Bureau’s release of its annual income and poverty reports next week, we thought it might be worth reviewing how poverty is officially defined and measured in the United States.
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Thu Sep 08 2016
Since the publication of the first official U.S. poverty statistics in 1964, there has been a continuing debate about the best way to measure income and poverty in the United States.
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