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 is based on the report, The Effects of Government Taxes and Transfers on Income and Poverty: 2004.
§ 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.
These data come from the CPS Annual Social and Economic Supplement, formerly called the March Supplement.
Table Number | Title |
Table RD-REV INC01 | (Table 1.) Income Distribution Measures, by Definitions of Income |
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: 2003 to 2004 |
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: 2003 to 2004 |