Start Date
19-8-2014 1:00 PM
End Date
19-8-2014 2:00 PM
Location
Lecture Hall (Room 101)
Description
This presentation features: Introduction; The basics: what is poverty; How the Census Bureau measures poverty; Poverty thresholds are a measure of need; 2013 Poverty Thresholds; Not Everyone has a Poverty Calculation!; Income Used to Compute “Official” Poverty; The ratio of income to poverty; The “bible” of current and historical poverty data; Graph from the 2012 report showing poverty trends over time: Note that poverty peaks out at about 15% following major recessions; Some Relevant Current Data from the ACS; High Poverty Counties are Fairly Dispersed but Primarily Rural; Census Bureau June 2014 report on “Changes in Concentrated Poverty” (census tracts with 20% or more in poverty) from 2000 to 2008-12; An easy way to get poverty data: Subject Table S1701 Always use the 5-year dataset as this splits data by age, gender, race, etc.; Longer Timeframes and Larger Geographies Lower the Margin of Error; This was reported correctly based upon the only ACS data at that time; while Omaha has poverty issues, new data show it is not “highest in the country”; Here are the current 2008-12 ACS poverty rankings for the 100 most populated metros; The new supplemental poverty measure: what it is and how it improves upon the official measure; How the SPM impacts poverty rates by state; Other relevant data and information about poverty; and Summary.
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Poverty Data and the New Supplemental Poverty Measure
Lecture Hall (Room 101)
This presentation features: Introduction; The basics: what is poverty; How the Census Bureau measures poverty; Poverty thresholds are a measure of need; 2013 Poverty Thresholds; Not Everyone has a Poverty Calculation!; Income Used to Compute “Official” Poverty; The ratio of income to poverty; The “bible” of current and historical poverty data; Graph from the 2012 report showing poverty trends over time: Note that poverty peaks out at about 15% following major recessions; Some Relevant Current Data from the ACS; High Poverty Counties are Fairly Dispersed but Primarily Rural; Census Bureau June 2014 report on “Changes in Concentrated Poverty” (census tracts with 20% or more in poverty) from 2000 to 2008-12; An easy way to get poverty data: Subject Table S1701 Always use the 5-year dataset as this splits data by age, gender, race, etc.; Longer Timeframes and Larger Geographies Lower the Margin of Error; This was reported correctly based upon the only ACS data at that time; while Omaha has poverty issues, new data show it is not “highest in the country”; Here are the current 2008-12 ACS poverty rankings for the 100 most populated metros; The new supplemental poverty measure: what it is and how it improves upon the official measure; How the SPM impacts poverty rates by state; Other relevant data and information about poverty; and Summary.