This is the second release of the U.S. Census Bureau's National Experimental Well-being Statistics (NEWS) project.  The NEWS project aims to produce the best possible estimates of income and poverty given all available survey, decennial census, administrative, and third-party data. We estimate improved income and poverty statistics by addressing bias from unit non-response, missing information and measurement error. In addition to pre-tax money income, which release 1 focused on, this release greatly expands the income definitions our data cover by additionally creating measures of 1) disposable income, 2) a resource measure inclusive of non-health means-tested in-kind benefits, and 3) the income concept used for estimating the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM). In addition, this release implements several improvements, most importantly: 1) we estimated federal and state taxes and credits, 2) we integrated additional administrative data on means-tested program benefits, 3) we updated our model for combining survey and administrative earnings to better estimate the unobserved true earnings distribution given the earnings reported across data sources and the other observable characteristics of individuals.

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The previously published paper is linked to below and the previously published data are archived on the FTP2 site