These tables focus on alternative definitions of income. In the poverty tables, the same poverty thresholds were used across income definitions.
The tables labeled "RS" use a revised price index to adjust poverty thresholds for inflation. More about the CPI-U-RS.
§ The first series supports the report, The Effects of Taxes and Transfers on Income and Poverty: 2005.
§ The second series (at bottom) is based on research developed in the 1980s. For details about that series, see Measuring the Effect of Benefits and Taxes on Income and Poverty: 1992. [PDF]
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These two data series are not the only alternatives
available. See Poverty Measurement
Studies and Alternative Measures.
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Variables
used to construct the Alternative Income Definitions.
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Source and Accuracy of the Estimates.
The Effects of Taxes and Transfer on Income and Poverty (New
Alternative Measures of Income and Poverty)
These data come from the CPS Annual Social and Economic
Supplement, formerly called the March Supplement.
Poverty Footnotes
Table Number
Title
Table INC RD-AEI 1
Income Distribution Measures, by Definitions of Income
Table INC RD-AEI 3
Median Income of Households by Selected Characteristics and Income Definition: 2005 and 2006
Table RD-REV POV01
Percent and Number
of People in Poverty Under Alternative Income Definitions and Using
Three-Parameter Thresholds
Table RD-REV POV01 RS
Percent and
Number of People in Poverty Under Alternative Income Definitions and Using
Three-Parameter Thresholds Adjusted for Inflation using the
CPI-U-RS
Table RD-REV POV02
People and Families
With Alternative Definitions of Income Below the Three-Parameter Poverty
Thresholds, by Selected Characteristics: 2005 to 2006
Table RD-REV POV02 RS
People and
Families With Alternative Definitions of Income Below the
CPI-U-RS-adjusted Three-Parameter Poverty Thresholds, by Selected
Characteristics: 2005 to 2006
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
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Last revised: December 31, 2007
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