Poverty in the United States: 1986. Consumer Income. Current Population Reports, Series P-60, No. 160.

Institution	Bureau of the Census (DOC), Suitland, MD. Population Div.
Titel	Poverty in the United States: 1986. Consumer Income. Current Population Reports, Series P-60, No. 160.
Quelle	(1988) 160, (183 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Quantitative Daten; Age; Blacks; Economically Disadvantaged; Educational Attainment; Employment Experience; Ethnicity; Family Characteristics; Family Income; Family Size; Family (Sociological Unit); Heads of Households; Hispanic Americans; Low Income Groups; Marital Status; Minority Groups; National Surveys; Poverty; Poverty Areas; Racial Differences; Sex Differences; Statistical Data; Whites + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Alter; Lebensalter; Black person; Schwarzer; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Occupational experience; Job experience; Work experience; Berufserfahrung; Ethnizität; Familieneinkommen; Familiengröße; Familie; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Familienstand; Ethnische Minderheit; Armut; Rassenunterschied; Sex difference; Geschlechtsunterschied; White; Weißer
Abstract	This report presents social and economic characteristics of the population below the poverty level in 1986 based on the March 1987 Current Population Survey. Among the highlights are the following: (1) the number of persons below the poverty level was 32.4 million; (2) the poverty rate was 13.6 percent; (3) Whites represented 69 percent of the poor, Blacks represented 28 percent, and the remainder were persons of other ethnicity (primarily Asians and American Indians); (4) the poverty rate for Hispanics was 27 percent; (5) the number of poor, and the poverty rate in the Northeast and Midwest Regions declined between 1985 and 1986, but there were no significant changes in the South or West; (6) the number of poor families was about 7 million; (7) 44 percent of poor families were headed by married couples, and 51 percent were headed by a female with no husband present; (8) persons in families represented 76 percent of the poor, and persons living alone represented 21 percent (persons in unrelated subfamilies made up the balance); (9) the poverty rate was about 20 percent for related children under 18-years-old, and 12 percent for persons 65-years-old and over; (10) the poverty rate was higher in central cities of metropolitan areas and in nonmetropolitan areas than in suburban areas; and (11) one-half of poor family householders worked at some time, and 17 percent worked year-round, full-time. Data are presented on 34 tables. Appendices discuss definitions, explanations, limitations, and comparability of the data, the source and reliability of the estimates, and the underreporting of income. (BJV)
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC