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Small Area Income & Poverty EstimatesModel-based Estimates for States, Counties, & School Districts |
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I. File Organization:
The files in the estmod98 FTP directory contain estimates of poverty and income
for income year 1998. There is one FTP file for each state (or US) with data for
ALL the 1998 statistics. Additionally, there is also one file that includes the
data for the US and each state and county. On the "Tables for States and Counties
by Income Year and Statistic" page, for the 1998 income year, there is one table
for each statistic for each state (with its counties) and for the US (with all
the states).
II. File Names
est98ALL.dat (for US and all states and counties)
est98US.dat (for US with state data [but no county data])
est98_[STATE].dat (for state with county data)
where [STATE] = standard two-letter postal abbreviations.
III. Record Layout for Estimates Files
Position Variable
1- 2 FIPS State code (00 for US record)
4- 6 FIPS county code ( 0 for US or state level records)
8- 15 Estimate of people of all ages in poverty
17- 24 90% confidence interval lower bound of
estimate of people of all ages in poverty
26- 33 90% confidence interval upper bound of
estimate of people of all ages in poverty
35- 38 Estimated percent of people of all ages in poverty
40- 43 90% confidence interval lower bound of
estimate of percent of people of all ages in poverty
45- 48 90% confidence interval upper bound of
estimate of percent of people of all ages in poverty
50- 57 Estimate of people age 0-17 in poverty
59- 66 90% confidence interval lower bound of
estimate of people age 0-17 in poverty
68- 75 90% confidence interval upper bound of
estimate of people age 0-17 in poverty
77- 80 Estimated percent of people age 0-17 in poverty
82- 85 90% confidence interval lower bound of
estimate of percent of people age 0-17 in poverty
87- 90 90% confidence interval upper bound of
estimate of percent of people age 0-17 in poverty
92- 99 Estimate of related children age 5-17 in families in
poverty
101-108 90% confidence interval lower bound of estimate of
related children age 5-17 in families in poverty
110-117 90% confidence interval upper bound of estimate of
related children age 5-17 in families in poverty
119-122 Estimated percent of related children age 5-17 in
families in poverty
124-127 90% confidence interval lower bound of estimate of percent
of related children age 5-17 in families in poverty
129-132 90% confidence interval upper bound of estimate of percent
of related children age 5-17 in families in poverty
134-139 Estimate of median household income
141-146 90% confidence interval lower bound of
estimate of median household income
148-153 90% confidence interval upper bound of
estimate of median household income
NOTE: Columns 155-192 will be blank for all county-level
records. These data are only available at the
national and state-level.
155-161 Estimate of people under age 5 in poverty
163-169 90% confidence interval lower bound of
estimate of people under age 5 in poverty
171-177 90% confidence interval upper bound of
estimate of people under age 5 in poverty
179-182 Estimated percent of people under age 5 in poverty
184-187 90% confidence interval lower bound of
estimate of percent of people under age 5 in poverty
189-192 90% confidence interval upper bound of
estimate of percent of people under age 5 in poverty
194-238 State or county name
240-241 Two-letter Postal State abbreviation
243-264 A tag indicating the file name and date of creation
