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Work-related expenses in the Supplemental Poverty Measure
Work-related expenses in the Supplemental Poverty Measure
Abstract
This paper will take advantage of information derived from several ACS questions related to the work commute and work schedule to describe and analyze alternate methods of estimating commuting costs. Section 1 describes the current method using the SIPP in more detail and evaluates the use of an assigned median costs vs. using actual reported expenses. Section 2 uses the ACS to investigate alternate cost calculations based on geographic variation in commuting patterns. Section 3 describes the SPM for calendar year (CY) 2011 using the current SIPP based deduction and then calculates an alternate measure that incorporates the ACS based method. Poverty estimates using the two methods are compared and evaluated. Section 4 concludes.
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Page Last Revised - October 8, 2021
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