Thursday, January 13, 2011

[EQ] US Census Bureau Research - Supplemental Poverty Measure - research paper, Who is Poor?

US Census Bureau Research - Supplemental Poverty Measure
 — releasing the research paper, Who is Poor?


Website: http://bit.ly/eLElhc

 
Papers prepared for the Allied Social Science Associations Annual Meeting– Denver, CO

A New Supplemental Poverty Measure for the United States -January 8, 2011

Developing Thresholds for the Supplemental Poverty Measure [PDF - 287k]
Thesia I. Garner (Bureau of Labor Statistics)

Medical Out-of-Pocket Expenses, Poverty, and the Uninsured [PDF - 262k]
Kyle Caswell (Bureau of the Census)
Brett O'Hara (Bureau of the Census)

Supplemental Poverty Measure: Geographic Adjustments from the American Community Survey [PDF - 1.21MB]
Trudi Renwick (Bureau of the Census)

Who is Poor? A New Look with the Supplemental Poverty Measure [PDF - 283k]
Kathleen Short (Bureau of the Census)

“….A series of papers (available at http://bit.ly/dSLBbr ) have discussed other methods for computing the various dimensions of the poverty measure, including changing the unit of analysis, determining the value of housing subsidies that is added to income as a non-cash transfer, modeling of medical out-of-pocket and child care spending, and the development of adjustments for geographic cost-of-living differences in the threshold and a different method for the valuation of housing subsidies…”

Working Papers

A Comparison of Child Support Paid from CPS and SIPP (Timothy Grall)


Estimating the Value of Federal Housing Assistance for the Supplemental Poverty Measure (Paul D. Johnson, Trudi Renwick, Kathleen Short)


Research on Commuting Expenditures for the Supplemental Poverty Measure (Melanie Rapino, Brian McKenzie, Mathew Marlay)


Unit of Analysis for Poverty Measurement: A Comparison of the Supplemental Poverty Measure and the Official Poverty Measure  (Ashley Provencher)


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