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Working Paper

Medical Care Needs in Poverty Thresholds

December 2000

This paper compares several methods of incorporating medical care needs into a revised poverty measure.

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Publication

Perfil de las personas nacidas en América Latina

December 01, 2000

La mitad de la población que vive en los Estados Unidos y que nació en el extranjero procede de América Latina.

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Publication

Child Support for Custodial Mothers and Fathers: 1997

October 2000

This report presents data on parents with children whose other parent is not living with the family.

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Working Paper

Medical Out-Of-Pocket Spending in Poverty Thresholds

October 2000

Two options for including amounts for MOOP in poverty thresholds like those proposed by the National Research Council are presented.

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Publication

Poverty Among Working Families: Experimental Poverty Measures: 1998

September 2000

This report shows that according to measures, people in full-time working families comprise a higher proportion of those in poverty than previously estimated.

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Publication

Geographical Mobility: 1990 to 1995

September 2000

Residential mobility, internal migration, and immigration are critical in determining population growth and decline.

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Publication

A Profile of the Nation’s Asian Foreign-Born Population

September 2000

This brief, based on Current Population Survey data, profiles the U.S. foreign-born population from Asia (Mideast to the Pacific).

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Publication

Coming From the Americas: A Profile of the Latin American Foreign Born

September 01, 2000

This brief, based on Current Population Survey data, explores the U.S. foreign-born population from Latin America.

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Publication

Fertility of American Women: June 1998

September 2000

Stability in fertility rates among women at the close of the century is in sharp contrast to the wide swings in rates that occurred in preceding decades.

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Publication

Health Insurance Coverage: 1999

September 01, 2000

This report presents data on the health insurance coverage status of persons in the United States during the 1999 calendar year.

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Publication

Money Income in the United States: 1999

September 01, 2000

This report examines annual changes in income and earnings and compares these changes with historical trends.

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Publication

Poverty in the United States: 1999

September 2000

This illustrates how official poverty rates vary by characteristics age, race, Hispanic origin, nativity, family composition, work experience, and geography.

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Publication

The Asian and Pacific Islander Population in the U.S.: March 1999

September 01, 2000

This report presents data on the Asian and Pacific Islander population in the US as part of the March 1999 supplement to the Current Population Survey (CPS).

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Publication

The Black Population in the United States: March 1999

September 01, 2000

This report presents statistics on the civilian non-institutional Black population in the United States, based on the March 1999 Current Population Survey.

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Working Paper

The "Family/Couple/Household" Unit of Analysis in Poverty Measurement

August 22, 2000

The unit of analysis used in poverty measurement continues to receive critical scrutiny.

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Working Paper

Valuing Housing Subsidies: A Revised Method for Quantifying Benefits

August 16, 2000

This paper addresses the issue of valuing one such non-cash benefit, housing subsidies.

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Publication

Coming to America: A Profile of the Nation's Foreign Born

August 01, 2000

This brief, based on Current Population Survey data, discusses information on the U.S. foreign-born population.

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Publication

Voting and Registration in the Election of November 1998

August 2000

This report examines the characteristics of the people who voted in the November 1998 Congressional election.

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Working Paper

An Examination of the Increase in the Black Vote in November 1998

June 2000

This paper will examine the increase in the Black vote in a period when overall voter participation is at an all time low.

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Publication

The Changing Shape of the Nation's Income Distribution: 1947 - 1998

June 01, 2000

During the past 50 years, the annual demographic supplement to the March CPS has provided researchers with a wealth of data on income distribution.

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Visualization

The Changing Shape of the Nation's Income Distribution: 1947-1998

June 2000

These data show how, for 50 years, the annual demographic supplement to the March CPS has provided researchers with a wealth of data on income distribution.

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Working Paper

Models for Simulation and Comparison of SAIPE Analyses

May 02, 2000

We first present a simplified ideal model which can be used to simulate underlying data for the small-area estimation currently used in the SAIPE project.

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Working Paper

Who are the Poor Elderly? Report Using Alternative Poverty Measures

February 2000

This paper reviews the recent literature on poverty measurement among the elderly by bringing together issues that bear upon measures of resources and needs.

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Working Paper

Evaluating Poverty with a Different Measure

January 08, 2000

This paper describes and compares the poverty population under several different experimental measures of poverty.

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Working Paper

Alternate Scaling Parameter Functions in a Hierarchical Bayes Model

2000

The U.S. Census Bureau SAIPE currently uses an empirical Bayes estimation method to produce biennial intercensal estimates of the proverty rates.

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Publication

Geographical Mobility: March 1997 to March 1998

January 2000

This report identifies and explains key factors that affected the mobility of the population of the United States during March 1997 to 1998.

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Working Paper

Measuring School Enrollment with ACS: Comparisons with Census & CPS

2000

Comparing school enrollment information from the ACS with decennial census and the Current Population Survey.

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