Small Area Income & Poverty Estimates
Model-based Estimates for States, Counties, & School Districts
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The state and county models use selected variables based on survey and administrative sources including:
2005: Income and poverty estimates derived from the
American Community Survey
.
2004 and prior years: Income and poverty estimates derived from the
Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC) of the Current Population Survey (CPS)
.
Direct estimates of income and poverty from 1980, 1990, and 2000
decennial census data
.
Data summarized from
federal individual income tax returns
.
Numbers of
food stamp recipients
.
Information from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
, in the form of personal income estimates.
Supplemental Security Income recipients
.
Demographic
intercensal estimates of the population
of states and counties, by age and group quarters status. We further adjust these to provide crude estimates of
denominators for state and county poverty rates
.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Data Integration Division, Small Area Estimates Branch
For assistance, please contact the Demographic Call Center Staff at 301-763-2422 or 1-866-758-1060 (toll free) or visit
ask.census.gov
for further information.