Income-To-Poverty Ratio (PUMS) where does it comes from?

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://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

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://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!