Hi all
I was looking for data on children under 18 in poverty by race, at the county level.
I found one set of tables, b17020a – b17020i, that show people in poverty by age. Each table is for one race. So b17020d is for Asian alone. B17020b is for Black or African American alone.
But these tables have three age groups for children:under 66 to 1112 to 17
Is there any table or set of tables that show number or percent of children, under 18, as a single age group, in poverty by race?
Thanks
Gene ShackmanOffice of Public Health PracticeNew York State Department of HealthAlbany NY
Dear Gene,
You need to sum/combine across the 3 age categories that you want. The calculation (including MoE - margin of error) is in https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2018/acs/acs_general_handbook_2018_ch08.pdf
For a percent of children under 18 to need to get the denominator by adding across the 6 categories above/below age under 6, 6 to 11, 12 to 17.
The MoE calculation for percents in is the above reference. You can probably do the calculations using Excel formulas. I use the R statistics package..
Dave Dorer