By using official variables for poverty, why poverty rate is not reproduced for years 1992 and 1999?
By using official variables for poverty, why poverty rate is not reproduced for years 1992 and 1999?
As stated in the Methodology section of the IPUMS-CPS Official Poverty Rates note, “OFFPOV replicates official poverty rates for all except 5 years (1970, 1975, 1980, 1993 and 2000). The most likely reason for the discrepancies in these 5 years is due to changes in the population controls that affected weighted estimates.” (1992 and 1999 being the “income years” for the 1993 and 2000 surveys).
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