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Contents for Group
Poverty Detailed Tables: Old tables mapped to new tables
Old (1987-2001) New (2002- )
1 POV01 (all people, people in families, people in unrelated
subfamilies, unrelated individuals)
POV02 (people in families by family structure--married, male
householder no spouse, female householder no spouse)
POV03 (people in families with related children)
2 POV01 (ratios are in different iterations--each iteration has all
people, people in families, people in unrelated subfamilies,
unrelated individuals)
POV02 (ratios are in different iterations--each has people in families
by family structure)
POV05 (ratios are in different iterations--each has household
relationship)
POV25 (means-tested benefits)
POV40 (regions and metro/nonmetro status)
3 POV26 (program participation of household)
4 POV40 (regions and metro/nonmetro status)
5 POV39 (poverty areas)
6 Did not exist after 1997
7 POV29 (education -- highest grade attained)
8 POV30 (education -- school enrollment)
9 POV31 (marital status)
10 POV22 (work experience of people age 16 and older)
11 POV23 (compares earnings to 4-person threshold. "Living wage.")
12 Did not exist after 1997
13 POV24 (reason for not working)
14 Did not exist after 1997
15 Was not migrated for 2002. (Instead of showing poverty rates, Table 15
showed percent distributions--what fraction of the poor were children,
65 or older, etc.)
16 POV05 (people in families by age of householder)
16A POV04 (families by age of householder)
POV32 (mean number of people per family)
POV33 (mean number of related children per family)
17 By number of workers in the family:
Families:
POV06 (families by number of working family members and family
structure)
POV07 (families with related children under 18 by number of working
family members and family structure)
POV08 (families with related children under 6 by number of working
family members and family structure)
POV09 (families with householder under age 65 by number of working
family members and family structure)
People in families:
POV10 (People in families by number of working family members and
family structure)
POV11 (People in families with related children under 18 by number of
working family members and family structure)
POV12 (People in families with related children under 6 by number of
working family members and family structure)
POV13 (Related children under 18 by number of working family members
and family structure)
By the householder's work experience:
Families:
POV14 (Families by householder's work experience)
POV15 (Families with related children under 18 by householder's work
experience)
POV16 (Families with related children under 6 by householder's work
experience)
POV17 (Families with householder under age 65 by householder's work
experience)
People in families:
POV18 (People in families by householder's work experience and family
structure)
POV19 (People in families with related children under 18 by
householder's work experience)
POV20 (People in families with related children under 6 by
householder's work experience)
POV21 (Related children under 18 by householder's work experience and
family structure)
18 POV27 (Source of income)
19 Region, Division, Metro/nonmetro residence:
POV41 (all people, people in families, people in unrelated subfamilies,
unrelated individuals)
POV42 (people in families by family structure)
POV43 (people in families with related children by family structure)
POV44 (Families by family structure)
POV45 (Families with related children under 18 by family structure)
20 POV28 (income deficit or surplus -- the dollar difference between
family income and the poverty threshold)
21 POV35 (poverty thresholds)
POV36 (number of families by size of family and number of children in
the family)
POV37 (families in poverty by size of family and number of related
children)
POV38 (people in poverty by size of family and number of related
children)
22 POV01 (people by income to poverty ratio)
POV05 (related children by income to poverty ratio)
POV29 (nativity -- at bottom of table)
23 POV34 (single year of age)
24 Not migrated for 2002. See detailed health insurance tables at:
http://ferret.bls.census.gov/macro/032003/health/toc.htm for 2002
data.
For other health insurance data, go to
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/hlthins.html
25 POV46 (state)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, 2005 Annual Social and Economic Supplement.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
Contact: Housing and Household Economic Statistics Information Staff at (301)763-3242
Last revised: August 22, 2005
URL: http://pubdb3.census.gov/macro/032005/pov/tablemap.htm