Household After-tax IncomeU.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 1988 |
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adjusted gross income After-Tax Money Income Aggregate income Mean before-tax income Before-Tax Money Income bution Value dol Census computed confidence interval CPS simulation Current Population Survey estimated number family householder Federal income taxes G.I. Bill Hispanic origin households paying Income Mean Income Income per house Income per Household income Standard error individual income taxes Individual Retirement Accounts INTERVIEWER CHECK ITEM itemized deductions level and characteristic Levels and Selected March CPS Married couples Mean Income Number meaning of symbols Median Income dol Median income Standard money income level number of households number of persons Old Total Pareto interpolation payments payroll taxes Percent distri person with Yes Persons in Households poverty threshold property taxes related children sample Selected Characteristics Skip Social Security Standard error dol table C-5 tax filing units tax simulation taxes After taxes taxes paid Total number types of taxes underreporting xx xx xx Yes No Yes
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Page 39 - 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...
Page 39 - 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 41 - CPS. The monthly CPS deals mainly with labor force data for the civilian noninstitutional population. Questions relating to labor force participation are asked about each member in every sample household.
Page 39 - Families and unrelated individuals are classified as being above or below the poverty level using the poverty index originated at the Social Security Administration in 1964 and revised by Federal Interagency Committees in 1969 and 1980. The poverty index is based solely on money income and does not reflect the fact that many low-income persons receive noncash benefits such as food stamps, Medicaid, and public housing. The index is based on the Department of Agriculture's 1961 Economy...
Page 39 - 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 42 - The estimating procedure used in this survey involved the inflation of the weighted sample results to independent estimates of the civilian noninstitutional population of the United States by age, race, and sex. These independent estimates were based on statistics from the 1970 Census of Population; statistics of births, deaths, immigration and emigration; and statistics on the strength of the Armed Forces.
Page 51 - The general survey phenomenon that is commonly termed underreporting actually refers to the tendency of household surveys to underestimate the number of income recipients and/or the amount of income received. There are three main causes for underreporting...
Page 39 - The poverty index is based solely on money income and does not reflect the fact that many low-income persons receive noncash benefits such as food stamps, Medicaid, and public housing. The index is based on the Department of Agriculture's 1961 Economy Food Plan and reflects the different consumption requirements of families based on their size and composition.
Page 39 - In addition, the sample included persons in the Armed Forces living off post or with their families on post. CPS Estimation Procedure. This survey's estimation procedure inflates weighted sample results to independent estimates of the civilian noninstitutional population of the United States by age, race, sex, and Hispanic/nonHispanic categories.
Page 39 - ... was set at three times the cost of the economy food plan. For smaller families and persons living alone, the cost of the economy food plan...