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.
These data come from the CPS Annual Social and Economic Supplement, formerly called the March Supplement.
Table Number | Title |
Table INC RD-AE1 | 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: 2004 to 2005 |
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: 2004 to 2005 |