Poverty in the United StatesU.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census |
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... the occupants do not live and eat with any other persons in the structure and there is direct access from the outside or through a common hall . A household includes the related family members and all the unrelated persons , if any ...
... the occupants do not live and eat with any other persons in the structure and there is direct access from the outside or through a common hall . A household includes the related family members and all the unrelated persons , if any ...
Page 164
... the occupants do not live and eat with any other persons in the structure and there is direct access from the outside or through a common hall . A household includes the related family members and all the unrelated persons , if any ...
... the occupants do not live and eat with any other persons in the structure and there is direct access from the outside or through a common hall . A household includes the related family members and all the unrelated persons , if any ...
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... the occupants do not live and eat with any other persons in the structure and there is direct access from the outside or through a common hall . A household includes the related family members and all the unrelated persons , if any ...
... the occupants do not live and eat with any other persons in the structure and there is direct access from the outside or through a common hall . A household includes the related family members and all the unrelated persons , if any ...
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13 WEEKS 26 WEEKS 49 WEEKS 52 WEEKS ALIMONY ANNUITIFS ARMED FORCES CHILDREN UNDER 18 DIVIDENDS DOLLARS EARNINGS estimates EXPERIENCE Families and Unrelated FAMILY HOUSEHOLDERS FAMILY MEMBERS FARM SELF-EMPLOYMENT INCOME FEMALE HOUSEHOLDER GOING TO SCHOOL HIGH SCHOOL ILL OR DISABLED INTEREST LAST LESS THAN 50 LEVEL PERCENT NUMBER LIVING MAIN REASON MALE MARCH MEAN FAMILY INCOME MEAN INCOME MEAN NUMBER MEANING OF SYMBOLS MEDIAN money income MOTHER NONFARM SELF-EMPLOYMENT INCOME NUMBER OF CHILDREN NUMBER OF TOTAL NUMBER OF WEEKS NUMBERS IN THOUSANDS PERCENT OF TOTAL PERSONS poor population POVERTY LEVEL PERCENT PRESENT PUBLIC ASSISTANCE INCOME RACES RELATED CHILDREN RENT PRIVATE PENSIONS RESIDENCE RETIRED SALARY INCOME sample SCHOOL COMPLETED SELF-EMPLOYMENT INCOME INCOME SEPARATED SOCIAL SECURITY INCOME SPOUSE standard error Status in 1985 SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME Table TEXT TOTAL NUMBER UNABLE TO FIND UNITS UNRELATED INDIVIDUALS WAGE AND SALARY WEEKS OR LESS WORKER
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Page 144 - South— Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and...
Page 174 - Columbia) and members of the Armed Forces living off post or with their families on post, but excludes all other members of the Armed Forces.
Page 154 - Also included as unemployed are those who did not work at all, were available for work, and (a) were waiting to be called back to a job from which they had been laid off; or (b) were waiting to report to a new wage or salary job within 30 days.
Page 157 - Nonsampling variability. Nonsampling errors can be attributed to many sources, eg, inability to obtain information about all cases in the sample, definitional difficulties, differences in the interpretation of questions, inability or unwillingness...
Page 150 - ... unable to work because of longterm physical or mental illness; persons who are retired or too old to work, seasonal workers for whom the survey week fell in an off season, and the voluntary idle.
Page 148 - One person in each household is designated as the householder. In most cases, this is the person, or one of the persons, in whose name the home is owned, being bought, or rented and who is listed in column 1 of the census questionnaire.
Page 144 - Includes net money income (gross receipts minus expenses) from one's own business, professional enterprise, or partnership. Gross receipts include the value of all goods sold and services rendered. Expenses...
Page 149 - Money received from the sale of property, such as stocks, bonds, a house, or a car (unless the person was engaged in the business of selling such property, in which case the net proceeds would be counted as income from...
Page 156 - Data reliability The data in this bulletin are estimates from a scientifically selected probability sample. There are two types of errors possible in an estimate based on a sample survey, sampling and nonsampling. Sampling errors occur because observations come only from a sample and not from an entire population. The sample used for this survey is one of a number of possible samples of the same size that could have been selected using the sample design. Estimates derived from the different samples...
Page 157 - ... percentage is based. Estimated percentages are relatively more reliable than the corresponding estimates of the numerators of the percentages, particularly if the percentages are 50 percent or more.