Senior Advisor, Office of the Deputy Director, U.S. Census Bureau

In 2012, real median household income and poverty rate were not statistically different, while percentage of people without health insurance coverage decreased.

La mediana real de ingreso de los hogares y la tasa de pobreza no fueron estadísticamente diferentes del año anterior.

The Bureau will hold an audio news conference to announce findings from its report: Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2012.

Release schedule for national income, poverty and health insurance statistics for 2012 from the Current Population Survey, and local estimates from the ACS.

The Bureau collects health insurance data using three national surveys: CPS ASEC, ACS, and SIPP.

Between 2011 and 2012 in the United States, neither real median income nor the poverty rate changed. For the previous four years (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011) either poverty increased (2008, 2009, 2010) or median household income decreased (2008, 2010, 2011).

Today, the Census Bureau released new statistics on the percentages of people receiving health insurance coverage. The report shows that 15.7 percent of people were covered by Medicare and 16.4 percent by Medicaid last year.

Income, poverty and health insurance statistics for 2012 from the Current Population Survey (CPS) will be released Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013. One-year statistics from the 2012 American Community Survey (ACS) will be released on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013.

Next week, the Census Bureau is releasing two sources for health insurance statistics in the United States: the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Population Survey (CPS ASEC) and the American Community Survey (ACS). While both surveys have questions that attempt to measure the same phenomena, they go about it in different ways.

The CPS is a monthly survey sponsored by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau.