The estimate is based upon unpublished data from the Family Income Survey (FIS) conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor and Human Resources, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. This survey was conducted in conjunction with the regular Puerto Rico survey of employment and unemployment, in February and March 1997. Data are available from 2,314 households of the 3,152 households in four outgoing rotation groups from the labor force survey sample. The questionnaire was administered in face-to-face personal interviews. Unlike the labor force survey, the Family Income Survey questionnaire includes data about persons under age 16, though it does not provide their age and other demographic detail. Income questions refer to money income received during 1996 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.
In light of the manipulations required to derive estimates for the desired age group, we are unable to estimate confidence intervals for either estimate or the difference between the estimates.
The estimates of 5 to 17 year old children in poverty is made by the following steps.
To obtain an estimate of the number of poor related children age 5 to 17 for the target year, 1995, we prorate the change between the available data points.
Estimate for Puerto Rico for 1995: 552,423
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.