...educational attainment, assets and liabilities, and pension plan coverage are periodically included. Poverty.— Families and unrelated individuals are...eliminated; (2) separate thresholds for farm families have been dropped; and (3) the matrix has been expanded to families of nine or more persons from the old...

...as food stamps, medicaid, and public housing. The index is based on the Department of Agricultures 1961 Economy Food Plan and reflects the different...eliminated; (2) separate thresholds for farm families have been dropped; and (3) the matrix has been expanded to families of nine or more persons from the old...

...low income level according to the poverty index adopted by a Federal Interagency Committee in 1969. The poverty thresholds are updated every year to reflect changes in the Consumer Price Index. Thus, the poverty threshold for a nonfarm family of four headed by a woman was nearly $5,800 in 1976,...

...low income level according to the poverty index adopted by a Federal Interagency Committee in 1969. The poverty thresholds are updated every year to reflect changes in the Consumer Price Index. Thus, the poverty threshold for a nonfarm family of four headed by a woman was nearly $6,162 in 1977,...

...lowincome level according to the poverty index adopted by a Federal Interagency Committee in 1969. The poverty thresholds are updated every year to reflect changes in the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Thus, the poverty threshold for a nonfarm family of four headed by a woman was $5,014 in 1974,...

...higher in order to compensate for the relatively larger fixed expenses of these smaller households. The poverty thresholds are updated every year to reflect changes in the Consumer Price Index (CPI). The poverty threshold for a nonfarm family of four was $6,662 in 1978, about 7.6 percent higher...

...poverty thresholds based on two of these variables, larnv nonfarm residence and sex of householder The poverty thresholds are updated every year to reflect changes in the consumer price index For further details, see "Current Population Reports," Series P-60, No 160 Families ' Below poverty...

...higher in order to compensate for the relatively larger fixed expenses of these smaller households. The poverty thresholds are updated every year to reflect changes in the Consumer Price lndex (CPl). The average poverty threshold for a family of four was $10,989 in 1985, about 3.6 percent...

...higher in order to compensate for the relatively larger fixed expenses of these smaller households. The poverty thresholds are updated every year to reflect changes in the Consumer Price lndex (CPl-U). For example, the average poverty threshold for a family of four was $13,359 in 1990,...

...amounts to less than approximately three times the cost of the "economy" food plan. These cutoff levels are updated every year to reflect changes in the Consumer Price Index. In 1970, percent below poverty level is calculated as the proportion of the total universe which reports...