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Poverty Thresholds
Poverty Thresholds
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Working PaperEvaluating the New Mortgage Questions in the CPS's 2010 ASECTo evaluate the quality of new 2010 ASEC mortgage questions, this paper compares similar data collected in ACS and AHS by a number of selected characteristics.
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Working PaperGeographic Adjustments: Fair Market Rents and the Supplemental Poverty MeasureThis paper explores using Fair Market Rent data to geographically adjust poverty thresholds and estimate Supplemental Poverty Measure rates.
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Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division Working Papers (SEHSD)Using ACS Earnings Data to Adjust SPM ThresholdsImpact of using a NCES-style comparable wage index to adjust the Supplemental Poverty Measure thresholds.
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Working PaperGeographic Adjustments of Supplemental Poverty Measure ThresholdsThe ITWG suggested that the poverty thresholds be adjusted for price differences across geographic areas.
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Working PaperOwner-Occupied Shelter in Experimental Poverty MeasuresIn this paper we describe and present four approaches to include the “cost” of shelter in a poverty measure through the thresholds.
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Working PaperDo the Current Poverty Thresholds Include Any Amount for Health Care?This paper addresses the question raised: Do the current poverty thresholds implicitly include any amounts for health care?
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Working PaperOwner-Occupied Housing: An Input for Experimental Poverty ThresholdsThis papers describes 2 approaches for estimating the costs of consumption flows of housing services which account for the occupancy of owner occupied housing.
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Working PaperWhere We Live: Geographic Differences in Poverty ThresholdsThis paper presents an examination of geographic adjustments to poverty thresholds.
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Working PaperSupplemental Poverty Measure Thresholds: Noncash Benefits - Part IThis paper presents an alternative method to imputing noncash benefits, the CPS Participation Method.
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Working PaperSupplemental Poverty Measure Thresholds: Imputing Noncash BenefitsData from the Current Population Survey, the basis of the SPM resource measure, are used to model imputations to the CE for participation in NSLP and WIC.
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Working PaperSupplemental Poverty Measure ThresholdsThis study introduces the CPS Program Participation Method of imputing benefits for the National School Lunch Program & the Women, Infants, & Children program.
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Working PaperAnchored and Relative: Supplemental Thresholds for the SPMThis paper develops a series of anchored and relative thresholds and explores the impact of these alternatives on SPM poverty rates from 2009-2016.
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Working PaperSPM Median Rent Index Excluding Housing Assistance RecipientsThis paper evaluates the impact of excluding housing assistance recipients from the estimation of the index used to adjust thresholds for the SPM.
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Working PaperChanging the Housing Share of Poverty Thresholds for the SPMThis paper looks at the impact of allowing the housing share of the thresholds to vary by housing size and the impact of using alternative equivalence scales.
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Working PaperUpdating the Poverty Thresholds with Expenditure DataThis paper explores the empirical basis of the panel's recommendations and suggestions about setting and updating the poverty thresholds.
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Working PaperAn Overview of Poverty Lines in the United States from 1904 to 1965To study the history of American poverty lines, one must be familiar with the concept of the "standard budget."
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Working PaperA Decade of Experimental Poverty Thresholds: 1990 to 2000This paper reviews the proposals for revising the official poverty thresholds recommended by the NAS Panel.
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Working PaperDeveloping Poverty Thresholds Using Expenditure DataIn this paper, we examine each five issues, focusing on the data and methodological issues related to the estimation of thresholds using CE data.
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Working PaperCreating a Consistent Poverty Measure Over Time: 1996-2005This paper presents an experimental poverty measure and compares it to the current official measure, now more than 40 years old.
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Working PaperAlternative Geographic Adjustments of U.S. Poverty ThresholdsThis paper will examine the impact of two new geographic cost adjustment methods on state poverty rates.
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Working PaperAdjusting Poverty Thresholds Based on Differences in Housing CostComparing housing cost indexes for metro areas, both methods (the ACS and HUD FMR) have produced similar “ranking” order among the states.
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Working PaperThe Role of Equivalence Scales in Poverty MeasurementCounting the poor is conceptually a rather simple procedure.
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Working PaperIs There Such a Thing as an Absolute Poverty Line Over Time?One of the central questions in discussions and debates about poverty definition and measurement is whether poverty lines should be "absolute" or "relative."
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Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division Working Papers (SEHSD)Adjustments with Regional Price Parities vs. Median Rents from the ACSThe focus in this paper is to compare two types of geographic adjustments.
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Working PaperEstimating the Value of Federal Housing AssistanceThis paper will describe the methodologies currently used by the Census Bureau to estimate the value of housing assistance.
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Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division Working Papers (SEHSD)Supplemental Poverty Measure Thresholds: Laying the FoundationGuidelines to produce a poverty measure for the U.S. are included in a document, Observations from the Interagency Technical Working Group on Developing a SPM.
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Working PaperSetting and Updating Modern Poverty ThresholdsThis research compares median-based thresholds with ones based on the 33rd percentile using CE Survey data from 2004 quarter one through 2009 quarter one.
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Working PaperIncorporating Amenities into Geographic Adjustments of the SPMThresholds for the Supplemental Poverty Measure reflect differences in the cost of housing. This paper suggests an approach that takes into account amenities.
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Working PaperMoving to the Median and Expanding the Estimation SampleThis paper examines the impact of two potential changes to the SPM thresholds: changing the range of expenditures and expanding the estimation sample.
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Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division Working Papers (SEHSD)Geographic Adjustments with BEA RPPs vs. ACS Median Rents: An UpdateThis paper compares the results of two different adjustments to the Supplemental Poverty Measure thresholds.
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