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Census Bureau Releases 1997 Income and Poverty Estimates for States and Counties
The Commerce Department's Census Bureau today released
estimates of 1997
income and poverty for the nation's states and 3,141 counties. The new
figures can be used to allocate federal funds for programs such as Head
Start.
The model-based estimates released on the Internet were produced by
combining results from the Current Population Survey, the principal source
of income and employment data between censuses, and data from federal
individual income tax returns, administrative records on food stamps and
1990 decennial census figures.
The estimates should not be confused with Census 2000 results. Census
2000 data on poverty at the state and county levels will not be released
until 2002.
The 1997 estimates include median household income, total number of poor
people, poor children under 18, poor children ages 5 to 17 related to the
person maintaining the household in which they live and state-level
estimates of the number of poor children under 5.
The estimates and information about the methods used to produce them are
available on the Census Bureau's Internet site. This estimates program is
sponsored by the Census Bureau and the departments of Education and Health
and Human Services.
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