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SAIPE Methodology

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SAIPE Methodology

SAIPE revises and improves our methodology as time and resources allow. The details of the methodology differ slightly from year to year. The most significant change was between 2004 and 2005, when SAIPE began using data from the American Community Survey, rather than from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Population Survey.

The SAIPE model has two distinct components:

  • state and county estimates, and
  • school district estimates.

School district estimates sum to county estimates, county estimates sum to state estimates, and state estimates sum to the national estimate.

Citation of Sources:

  • 2023 SAIPE: U.S. Census Bureau, Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) Program, December 2024, Project No. P-7502872 / Approval CBDRB FY25‑0052.
  • 2022 SAIPE: U.S. Census Bureau, Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) Program, December 2023, Project No. P-7502872 / Approval CBDRB FY24-0047.
  • 2021 SAIPE: U.S. Census Bureau, Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) Program, December 2022, Project No. P-7502872 / Approval CBDRB FY23-0057.
  • 2020 SAIPE: U.S. Census Bureau, Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) Program, December 2021, Project No. P-7502872 / Approval CBDRB FY22-012.
  • 2019 SAIPE: U.S. Census Bureau, Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) Program, December 2020, Project No. P-7502872 / Approval CBDRB FY20-328.
  • 2018 SAIPE: U.S. Census Bureau, Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) Program, December 2019, Project No. P-7502872 / Approval CBDRB FY19-463.
  • 2017 SAIPE: U.S. Census Bureau, Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) Program, November 2018, Project No. P-6000588 / Approval CBDRB FY18-316.
  • 2016 SAIPE: U.S. Census Bureau, Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) Program, November 2017, Project No. P-6000588.
  • 2015 SAIPE: U.S. Census Bureau, Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) Program, November 2016, Project No. P-6000588.
  • 2014 SAIPE: U.S. Census Bureau, Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) Program, November 2015, Project No. P-6000588.
  • 2013 SAIPE: U.S. Census Bureau, Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) Program, November 2014, Project No. P-6000588.
  • 2012 SAIPE: U.S. Census Bureau, Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) Program, November 2013, Project No. P-6000588.
  • 2011 SAIPE: U.S. Census Bureau, Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) Program, December 2012, Project No. P-6000588.
  • 2010 SAIPE: U.S. Census Bureau, Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) Program, November 2011, Project No. P-6000588.
  • 2009 SAIPE: U.S. Census Bureau, Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) Program, April 2011, Project No. P-6000588.
  • 2008 SAIPE: U.S. Census Bureau, Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) Program, October 2009, Project No. P-6000588.
  • 2007 SAIPE: U.S. Census Bureau, Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) Program, November 2008, Project No. P-6000588.
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