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Income & Poverty Working Papers
Income & Poverty Working Papers
Working papers are intended to make results of Census Bureau research available to others and to encourage discussion on a variety of topics. They have not undergone a review and editorial process generally accorded official Census Bureau publications.
View the list of working paper topics.
View the list of working papers by year.
Working Paper
Measuring Poverty: Issues and Approaches
Formal measurement of poverty in the United States is less than three decades old.
Working Paper
Structure and Consequences of Eligibility Rules for a Social Program
The primary goal of the JTPA program is to improve the skills and labor market opportunities of disadvantaged workers.
Working Paper
Have Our Methods of Poverty Measurement Blinded Us to Who is Poor?
Conventional wisdom in poverty research states that children are at greater risk of being poor than are the elderly.
Working Paper
Income and Poverty Time Series Data from SIPP
This paper will present what we can currently provide for time series data from the SIPP.
Working Paper
Aspects of Survey and Model-Based Postcensal Estimation
Congress has charged the Census Bureau with the responsibility to develop postcensal estimates of basic income and poverty statistics by state, and county.
Working Paper
Is 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."
Working Paper
Do Proposed Revisions of the Poverty Measure Matter for Rural America?
The current official poverty measure was developed about 30 years ago, and has remained almost unchanged, except for inflation adjustments, up to the present.
Working Paper
Developing Postcensal Income and Poverty Estimates for all US Counties
The Census Bureau and a consortium of other Federal Agencies initiated a project to provide postcensal estimates of income and poverty for small areas.
Working Paper
Sampling Error Modelling of Poverty and Income Statistics for States
This paper develops models for sampling error co-variance matrices of estimates of age group poverty rates, median income, and per capita income.
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