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Children in Poverty (Number) Showing most recent 5 years; Show All Years
2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
26,000	26,000	31,000	28,000	33,000

2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
24,000	25,000	29,000	28,000	28,000

2000	2001
19,000	21,000

Children in Poverty (Percent) Showing most recent 5 years; Show All Years
2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
9%	9%	11%	10%	12%

2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
8%	8%	10%	9%	10%

2000	2001
6%	7%

Definitions: The share of children under age 18 who live in families with incomes below the federal poverty level. The federal poverty definition consists of a series of thresholds based on family size and composition. In calendar year 2011, a family of two adults and two children fell in the “poverty” category if their annual income fell below $22,811. Poverty status is not determined for people in military barracks, institutional quarters, or for unrelated individuals under age 15 (such as foster children). The data are based on income received in the 12 months prior to the survey. More...

Data Source: Population Reference Bureau, analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000 Supplementary Survey, 2001 Supplementary Survey, 2002 through 2011 American Community Survey. The data for this measure come from the 2000 and 2001 Supplementary Survey and the 2002 through 2011 American Community Survey (ACS). The 2000 through 2004 ACS surveyed approximately 700,000 households monthly during each calendar year. In general but particularly for these years, use caution when interpreting estimates for less populous states or indicators representing small sub-populations, where the sample size is relatively small. Beginning in January 2005, the U.S. Census Bureau expanded the ACS sample to 3 million households (full implementation), and in January 2006 the ACS included group quarters. The ACS, fully implemented, is designed to provide annually updated social, economic, and housing data for states and communities. (Such local-area data have traditionally been collected once every ten years in the long form of the decennial census.) More...

Footnotes: Updated September 2012.
S - Estimates suppressed when the confidence interval around the percentage is greater than or equal to 10 percentage points. N.A. – Data not available.
Data are provided for the 50 most populous cities according to the most recent Census counts. Cities for which data is collected may change over time.
A 90 percent confidence interval for each estimate can be found at Children in Poverty.

Data Provided by: National KIDS COUNT Program

Unemployed Teens Age 16 to 19 (Number) Showing most recent 5 years; Show All Years (2008-2011 series, explain series data)
2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
35,000	34,000	31,000	44,000	46,000

2000	2001	2002
25,000	26,000	29,000

Unemployed Teens Age 16 to 19 (Percent) Showing most recent 5 years; Show All Years (2008-2011 series, explain series data)
2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
53%	47%	48%	57%	58%

2000	2001	2002
42%	43%	46%

Children in low-income households where housing costs exceed 30 percent of income (Number) Showing most recent 5 years; Show All Years
2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
50,000	48,000	56,000	55,000	58,000

2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
36,000	43,000	50,000	50,000	54,000

2000	2001
55,000	33,000

Children in low-income households where housing costs exceed 30 percent of income (Percent) Showing most recent 5 years; Show All Years
2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
76%	70%	77%	75%	73%

2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
54%	67%	73%	73%	79%

2000	2001
82%	56%

Definitions: The share of children living in low-income households where more than 30 percent of the monthly income was spent on rent, mortgage payments, taxes, insurance, and/or related expenses.
Low-income households are households with incomes less than 200 percent of the federal poverty level, as defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. The 30 percent threshold for housing costs is based on research on affordable housing by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban development (HUD). According to HUD, households that must allocate more than 30 percent of their income to housing expenses are less likely to have enough resources for food, clothing, medical care or other needs. Because they must deal with relatively scarce resources to begin with, low-income households are particularly vulnerable. More...

Data Source: Population Reference Bureau, analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000 Supplementary Survey, 2001 Supplementary Survey, 2002 through 2011 American Community Survey. The data for this measure come from the 2000 and 2001 Supplementary Survey and the 2002 through 2011 American Community Survey (ACS). The 2000 through 2004 ACS surveyed approximately 700,000 households monthly during each calendar year. In general but particularly for these years, use caution when interpreting estimates for less populous states or indicators representing small sub-populations, where the sample size is relatively small. Beginning in January 2005, the U.S. Census Bureau expanded the ACS sample to 3 million households (full implementation), and in January 2006 the ACS included group quarters. The ACS, fully implemented, is designed to provide annually updated social, economic, and housing data for states and communities. (Such local-area data have traditionally been collected once every ten years in the long form of the decennial census.) More...

Footnotes: Updated November 2012.
S - Estimates suppressed when the confidence interval around the percentage is greater than or equal to 10 percentage points. N.A. – Data not available.
Data are provided for the 50 most populous cities according to the most recent Census counts. Cities for which data is collected may change over time.
A 90 percent confidence interval for each estimate can be found at Children in low-income households where housing costs exceed 30 percent of income.

Data Provided by: National KIDS COUNT Program

There have been substantial changes made to the 2008 American Community Survey (ACS) questions on labor force participation and number of weeks worked. After thoroughly investigating the extent to which each of the Kids Count indicators of economic well-being may be affected, we believe that the changes in methodology were significant enough to constitute a break in the trend. We therefore do not recommend that you make comparisons to previous years’ estimates.

For more detailed information about the changes made and tables comparing 2007 and 2008 state-level estimates of employment and unemployment read The Census Bureau notes at: http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/laborfor/researchnote092209.html