Estimates of Poverty Including the Value of Noncash Benefits : 1983

By U. S. Census Bureau Department

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Title:	Estimates of Poverty Including the Value of Noncash Benefits : 1983
Author:	U. S. Census Bureau Department
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Census., Census report
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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 composttion of the poverty population in 1983. The report updates the estimates for 1979 to 1982 presented in Technical Paper 51 (issued in February 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 either the relative merits of the three methods or the appropriateness of incorporating noncash benefits into the poverty measure in any form; therefore, all the work in this report should be viewed as exploratory in nature.

Table of Contents
CONTENTS Page Introduction, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . V II Growth of noncash benefits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . V II Explanation of v.aluation techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. V III Market value IX Recipient Or cash equivalent value. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IX Poverty budget share value. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X Illustration of valuation techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X Food stamps X Medicaid. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X Changes in poverty, 1982-83 X I Official poverty statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X I Poverty statistics after valuing noncash benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . XII Market value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. XIII Recipient or cash equivalent value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . XV Poverty budget share value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . XV Receipt of noncash benefits and average noncash benefit values XV Poverty before and after cash and noncash benefits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . XV Limitations of the study. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. XVI TEXT TABLES A. Means-tested cash assistance and the market value of noncash benefits valued in this study: 1965, 1970, 1975, and 1979 to 1983.......... . VIII B. Persons in poverty, by selected characteristics: 1979 to 1983 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . XI C. Number of persons in poverty, by valuation technique and type of noncash benefits included: 1979 to 1983 XII D. Percent of persons in poverty, by valuation technique and type of noncash benefits included: t 979 to 1983 :.................................. XIII E. Percent of persons in poverty, by valuation technique by selected characteristics: 1983 and 1982 XIV F. Percent of families and unrelated individuals in poverty receiving noncash benefits and mean market value of noncash benefits, by selected characteristics: 1983 and 1982 .. XVI G. Poverty status of families and unrelated individuals before and after cash and noncash transfers: 1983 and 1982 XVII DETAILED TABLES ~, , 1. 2. Number of persons below the poverty level and poverty rate-current poverty definition and alternative methods of valuing noncash benefits, by selected characteristics: 1979 to 1983 . Poverty status of persons and families, by the official poverty definition and alternative methods of valuing noncash benefits, by selected characteristics: 1983 . III 2 8