The estimate is based upon unpublished data from a "Special Family Income Survey" conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor and Human Resources, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. This survey was conducted on an experimental basis in conjunction with the regular Puerto Rico survey of employment and unemployment, in March 1995. Data are available from 2,485 households of the 3,185 householods in four outgoing rotation groups from the labor force survey sample. The special questionnaire was administered in face-to-face personal interviews. Unlike the labor force survey, the Family Income Survey questionnaire includes persons under age 16, though it does not provide age detail for persons under age 15. Income questions refer to money income received during 1994 and resemble the questions used in the U.S. Current Population Survey March Income Supplement in the breadth of income sources for which data are collected.
Because that survey was experimental, and in light of the manipulations required to derive estimates for the desired age group, we are unable to estimate confidence intervals.
The estimates of 5-17 year old children in poverty is made through the following steps.
To obtain an estimate of the number of poor related children age 5 to 17 for the target year, 1993, we prorate the change between the available data points.
Estimate for Puerto Rico for 1993: 570,512
1Population estimates are available for the Commonwealth as a product of the Federal-State Cooperative Population Estimates Program. The population estimates were produced by the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Division, see the below non-technical summary for details.