Persons Below Poverty Level and Below 125 Percent of Poverty Level (Statistical Abstract 2008 Table 0689)

The Statistical Abstract files are distributed by the census department as excel files. These files have data mixed with notes and references, multiple tables per sheet, and worst of all the table headers aren’t easily matched to their rows and columns.
The excel files in this collection are unmolested copies of the census originals, with the following exceptions:

1. A few files had extraneous characters in the title. These were
   corrected to be consistent. A few files have a sheet of crufty
   gibberish in the first slot. The sheet order was shuffled but no
   data were changed.

1. The first four files have been restructured to allow full
   comprehension of the table. If you’d like to help clean up the data
   follow along with what’s there.

The CSV files, and the payload portions of the yaml files, have not been processed beyond extracting an array (excel sheets) of 2-D arrays (each sheet’s cells).

Some metadata (title, footnotes, symbols, and sources) has been copied (without molesting the imported stream) into the appropriate slot in this schema. This metadata identification was purposefully done to be strict and simple, and the original files are somewhat irregular, so it’s possible that some metadata fields were missed

These files have been tagged by hand and received cursory inspection, but you’re advised to check against the originals before you go lauching any Mars rovers.

Notes (pg 2)

1. Includes other races not shown separately.
2. Data represent White alone, which refers to people who reported White and did not report any other race category.
3. Data represent Black alone, which refers to people who reported Black and did not report any other race category.
4. The 2003 Current Population Survey (CPS) allowed respondents to choose more than one race. For
   2002, data represent persons who selected this race group only and persons reporting this race group and
   at least one other race. The CPS in prior years allowed respondents to report only one race group. See
   also comments on race in the text for Section 1.
5. Data represent Asian alone, which refers to people who reported Asian and did not report any other race category.
6. People of Hispanic origin may be of any race.
7. Data represent White alone, not Hispanic, which refers to people who reported White, not Hispanic and
   did not report any other race category.
8. Implementation of a new March CPS processing system.
9. Implementation of 1970 census population controls.
10. Implementation of a new March CPS processing system. Questionnaire expanded to ask eleven income questions.
11. Implementation of 1980 census population controls. Questionnaire expanded to show 27 possible
    values from 51 possible sources of income.
12. Implemented three technical changes to the poverty definition. See Characteristics of the Population
    Below the Poverty Level: 1980; Series P-60, No. 133.
13. Implementation of Hispanic poppulation weighting controls.
14. CPS file for March 1992 (1991 data) was corrected after the release of the 1991 Income and Poverty
    reports. Weights for nine person records were omitted on the original file. (See P60-184 for further details.)
15. Implementation of 1990 census population controls.
16. Data collection method changed from paper and pencil to computer-assisted interviewing. In addition,
    the March 1994 income supplement was revised to allow for the coding of different income amounts on
    selected questionnaire items. Limits either increased or decreased in the following categories: earnings
    increased to $999,999; Social Security increased to $49,999; Supplemental Security Income and Public
    Assistance increased to $24,999; Veterans’ Benefits increased to $99,999; Child Support and Alimony
    decreased to $49,999.
17. Implementation of Census 2000 based population controls.
18. Implementation of Census 2000 based population controls and sample expanded by 28,000 households.
19. The 2004 data have been revised to reflect a correction to the weights in the 2005 ASEC.

[Persons as of March of the following year. Based on Current Population
Survey, Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC); see text, Sections 1 and 13, Appendix III, and summary below table.
For data collection changes over time, see
< http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/histinc/hstchg.html >]

table: [100, 39]

Notes (pg 2)

• (NA) Not available.

0689

2008