Children in poverty (100%) by age group and race and ethnicity in the United States
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Definitions:
The share of children under age 18 who live in families with incomes below the federal poverty level by age group and race/ethnicity.
The
federal poverty definition consists of a series of thresholds based on
family size and composition. In calendar year 2018, a family of two
adults and two children fell in the “poverty” category if their annual
income fell below $25,465. 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.
Data Source:
Population Reference Bureau, analysis of data from the U.S. Census
Bureau, 2005, 2008, 2010, and 2013 through 2018 American Community Survey.
These were derived from ACS table B17001.
The data for this measure come from the 2005, 2008, 2010, and 2013 through 2018 American Community Survey (ACS). 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.)
Footnotes:
Updated September 2019.
S - Estimates suppressed when the confidence interval around the
percentage is greater than or equal to 10 percentage points.
N.A. – Data
not available.
A 90 percent confidence interval for each estimate can be found at Children in poverty (100%) by age group and race and ethnicity .