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CBPOVERTY
Poverty status (original Census Bureau calculation)

Description

CBPOVERTY is calculated by the Census Bureau and reports each person's total family income expressed as a percentage of the poverty threshold for their specific family situation (see POVERTY for more information). It differs from the IPUMS variable POVERTY in that it is based on the Census Bureau’s family definitions, and not the IPUMS family interrelationship variables. Please see the POVERTY variable description for further discussion of the differences between the IPUMS and the Census Bureau's method of calculating POVERTY.

Because of these differences, CBPOVERTY is provided so that users can replicate published Census Bureau poverty estimates if desired. However, users should note that the "official" poverty estimates appearing in the "Poverty in the United States" reports are calculated using data from the Current Population Survey, not the ACS.