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Supplemental Poverty Measure Working Papers
Supplemental Poverty Measure 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
Poverty in the U.S. Taking Account of Taxes and Transfers in 2011
This paper expands on information about estimates of a Supplemental Poverty Measure for the U.S. reported earlier (Short, 2012).
Working Paper
EITC Estimates in the CPS ASEC Simulations of After - Tax Income
The SEHSD of the Census Bureau regularly releases estimates of household income for the United States using information collected in the CPS Annual Supplement.
Working Paper
Understanding Income-to-Threshold Ratios Using the SPM
This paper presents additional information about “moderate” income individuals with resources between 1 and 2 times the SPM thresholds.
Working Paper
Standard Budgets (Basic Needs Budgets) in the United States Since 2006
A “standard budget” is a list of goods and services that a family of a specified size and
composition would need to live at a designated level of well-being.
Working Paper
Changing the Face of Poor Lone Mothers
This paper analyzes how changes in poverty measurement affect the poverty rate of lone mother families.
Working Paper
The Supplemental Poverty Measure
The Census Bureau released a report in November of 2011 with Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) estimates for calendar year 2010.
Working Paper
Alternative Strategies for Grouping People into Resource Units
Investigates how poverty estimates change when additional interpersonal relationship information is available.
Working Paper
Supplemental Poverty Measure Thresholds
This study introduces the CPS Program Participation Method of imputing benefits for the National School Lunch Program & the Women, Infants, & Children program.
Working Paper
Using the ACS to Implement a Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM)
For solving missing data issues, this paper examines how the data in the CPS ASEC might be used to inform ACS imputations.
Working Paper
Poverty in the U.S. Taking Account of Taxes and Transfers in 2010
This paper expands on information about estimates of a Supplemental Poverty Measure for the U.S. reported earlier.
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