Estimates of Poverty Including the Value of Noncash Benefits : 1984

By U. S. Census Bureau Department

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Title:	Estimates of Poverty Including the Value of Noncash Benefits : 1984
Author:	U. S. Census Bureau Department
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Census., Census report
Collections:	Government Library Collection, U.S. Census Bureau Collection
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Publisher:	United States Census Bureau Department


Citation APA MLA Chicago Census Bureau Department, B. U. (n.d.). Estimates of Poverty Including the Value of Noncash Benefits : 1984. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
Statistical Reference Document

Excerpt
Excerpt: This report describes alternative procedures for valuing noncash benefits received by the low-income population and estimates the effect of these benefits on the size and composition of the poverty population in 1984. The report updates the estimates for 1979 to 1983 presented in Technical Paper 52 (issued in August 1984), using identical methods to value noncash benefits. Each of these methods is subject to many conceptual and measurement problems. In addition, there is as yet no consensus concerning the relative merits of various methods of valuing noncash benefits; therefore, all the work in this report should be viewed as exploratory in nature. The Bureau of the Census has been the source of the official estimates of the poverty population since 1969 as specified in Directive No. 14 issued by the Office of Management and Budget. Estimates of the poverty population have been published annually since that time based on the cash or money income data collected in the March Current Population Survey (CPS). In March 1980, the Bureau began collecting data on participation in a selected group of noncash benefit programs. Questions covering participation in the National School Lunch Program, Food Stamp Program, public and other subsidized rental housing programs, Medicare, and Medicaid have been a permanent part of the March survey since that time. These serve as the basis for valuing benefits and estimating the effect on poverty for this study ...

Table of Contents
Contents Page Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Growth of noncash benefits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Explanation of valuation techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Market value '................................................ 2 Recipient or cash equivalent value. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Poverty budget share value. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Illustration of valuation techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Food stamps 4 Medicaid. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . .. . 4 Changes in poverty, 1983-84 4 Official poverty statistics .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Poverty statistics after valuing noncash benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Receipt of noncash benefits and average noncash benefit values 8 Poverty before and after cash and noncash benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Limitations of the study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Revised survey procedures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10