Money Income in the United States, ... (with Separate Data on Valuation of Noncash Benefits).U.S. Department of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, Bureau of the Census, 1996 |
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12th grade 15 years old 1995 of Persons 90-percent confidence level 9th grade 9th to 12th addition or deduction Alimony Associate degree Bachelor's degree Black Lung children under 18 Company or union Current Population Survey definition of income estimates Experience in 1995 Family Householder Female householder Gini index Gini ratio grade no diploma Hispanic Origin holder Income in 1995 income Mean income income Standard error Inside central cities Inside metropolitan areas Less than 9th Married-couple families Master's degree Mean income dollars meaning of symbols Median earnings median household income Median income Median Midwest Military retirement Number with income Numbers in thousands Origin of Householder Pacific Islander Pareto interpolation Pell grant Persons 15 quintile Race and Hispanic Railroad retirement real median income Region Northeast related children retirement2 school graduate includes Selected Characteristics Standard error dollars Supplemental Security Income Table Total Less Total money income U.S. Census Bureau Workers Year-Round
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Page 3 - Therefore, a conclusion that the average estimate derived from all possible samples lies within a range computed in this way would be correct for roughly 90 percent of all possible samples.
Page 1 - A household includes the related family members and all the unrelated persons, if any, such as lodgers, foster children, wards, or employees who A-2 share the housing unit. A person living alone in a housing unit or a group of unrelated persons sharing a housing unit as partners is also counted as a household.
Page 1 - The householder is the first adult household member listed on the questionnaire. The instructions call for listing first the person (or one of the persons) in whose name the home is owned or rented. If a home is owned jointly by a married couple, either the husband or the wife may be listed first, thereby becoming the reference person, or householder, to whom the relationship of other household members is to be recorded.
Page 2 - Data on consumer income collected in the CPS by the Bureau of the Census cover money income received (exclusive of certain money receipts such as capital gains) before payments for personal income taxes, Social Security, union dues. Medicare deductions, etc. Therefore, money income does not reflect the fact that some families receive part of their income in the form of noncash benefits such as food stamps, health benefits, and subsidized housing...
Page 2 - It includes wages, salary, Armed Forces pay, commissions, tips, piecerate payments, and cash bonuses earned before deductions were made for taxes, bonds, pensions, union dues, etc.
Page 1 - The term family refers to a group of two or more persons related by birth, marriage, or adoption and residing together in a household.
Page 1 - A household consists of all the persons who occupy a housing unit. A house, an apartment or other group of rooms, or a single room, is regarded as a housing unit when it is occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters; that is, when the occupants do not live and eat with any other persons in the structure and there is either (1) direct access from the outside or through a common hall or (2) a kitchen or cooking equipment for the exclusive use of the occupants.
Page 4 - States and members of the Armed Forces in the United States living off post or with their families on post but excludes all other members of the Armed Forces.
Page ix - Persons of Hispanic origin may be of any race. Source: US Bureau of the Census. Current Population Reports.