How do you calculate the income as a percentage of the federal poverty level? What variables are required to calculate this value?

I am assuming you are referring to the data available in IPUMS CPS in this question. Please let me know if I am incorrect. This page on the IPUMS CPS website provides detailed information about replicating official poverty rates. In particular, this page discusses each of the variables you’ll need t…

This is helpful. Thank you! I do have a follow-up question. I use IPUMS for on-line data analysis. With ACS data, I can define rows and columns as a range of income, measured as a percentage of the federal poverty level (FPL). That is an analytic capacity essential to producing certain policy-relev…

The IPUMS CPS has a number of variables available that are helpful for replicating the official poverty statistics. Here is a link to a page dedicated to discussing this topic . In short you can use OFFTOTVAL and OFFCUTOFF to generate the type of variable you describe as available on IPUMS USA. Alter…

Income as a percentage of the federal poverty level

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Income as a percentage of the federal poverty level

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