Hi,
I'm working with the PUMS, person and housing files (ACS-5year). I'm trying to find documentation about the income-to-poverty ratio (POVPIP).
Dear Marcos,
The poverty threshold is computed from family income (sum income across family members) then apply the lookup table on webpage (based on family size and number of related children
https:/…
https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/income-poverty/historical-poverty-thresholds.html
In the PUMS data (see PUMS codebook)
Total Family income is FINCP
You need to get family size (NPF)
and number of related children (NRC)
Then apply the spreadsheet for the correct year (vintage)
Dave
Great! Documentation came hard to find but on the handbook is well explained too. Thanks!