Measuring the Effect of Benefits and Taxes on Income and PovertyDIANE Publishing, 1994 - 154 pages Presents alternative measures of income & poverty for the year 1992. Derived from information collected in the March 1993 Current Population Survey conducted by the Bureau of the Census, with input from other data sources such as Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, & Health Care Financing Administration. Contains 40+ tables & figures. |
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12th grade addition or deduction AFDC Bachelor's degree capital gains cash assistance cash transfers Definition Census children under 18 Definition 1 Definition Definition 14 Definition 7 less Definition 9 Definition of Income EITC Employer-provided plan Experience in 1992 Female householder Food stamps gains current measure Gini index government cash transfers health insurance Hispanic origin husband present IIIII imputed return Income and Selected income definition income taxes Inside central cities Inside metropolitan areas less State income Less than 12th Less than bachelor's March Mean amount dollars meaning of symbols median household income Medicaid Medicare non-SSI number of persons Numbers in thousands Pacific Islander payroll taxes Percent of households person with Yes Persons in Poverty poverty rate Poverty Status poverty thresholds Program Participation Status regular-price school lunches related children return on equity stamps and cash Standard error dollars supplements to wage tested government cash type of addition Unrelated Individuals Upper limit
Popular passages
Page 2 - States and their political subdivisions to alleviate present and recurring unemployment and to remedy the unsafe and insanitary housing conditions and the acute shortage of decent, safe, and sanitary dwellings for families of low income...
Page 63 - Survey. includes inmates of institutions 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 vii - Grants) as well as means-tested transfers such as Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI).
Page viii - Medicaid are counted as income to the extent that they free up resources that could have been spent on medical care.
Page 2 - Consequently, one should be particularly careful when interpreting results based on a relatively small number of cases or on small differences between estimates. The standard errors for CPS estimates primarily indicate the magnitude of sampling error.