Poverty and single parent families: a study of minimal subsistance household budgets
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1998
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| Physical Description: | XV, 145 S. |
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| adam_text | Contents
List of Tables ix
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Chapter 1
Introduction 3
Chapter 2
The Official Poverty Count 9
Chapter 3
A Conceptual Framework for Measuring Economic Poverty 21
Chapter 4
Basic Needs Budgets for Single Parent Families 57
Chapter 5
Counting the Poor: The Mechanics of the Poverty Count 87
Chapter 6
Conclusions: The Incidence of Poverty Among Single Parent
Families 97
Appendices
A. SPSS Program Used to Calculate Basic Needs Budgets 115
B. Glossary of Current Population Survey Variables 119
C. Basic Needs Budgets Family Size Adjustments 121
Bibliography 129
Index 141
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List of Tables
Table 2.1: Official Poverty Thresholds: 1996 11
Table 3.1: Final BLS Family Budgets: 1981 31
Table 3.2: USDA Annual Expenditures on a child by
single parent families: 1996 35
Table 3.3: Orshansky/OMB Equivalence Scales 38
Table 3.4: BLS Equivalence Scales 39
Table 3.5: Equal Utility Equivalence Scales 41
Table 3.6: National Research Council Panel Equivalence Scales 43
Table 4.1: Expenditure Standards 59
Table 4.2: Cost of Food at Home: Low cost Food Plan 60
Table 4.3: Monthly Cost of Transportation: 1996 62
Table 4.4: Health Care Expenditure Standard 62
Table 4.5: Monthly Cost of Goods and Services Included in
the Basic Needs Budgets: 1996 66
Table 4.6: Monthly Cost of Goods and Services: Adjusted
for Age of Children 67
Table 4.7: Family Size Adjustments 69
Table 4.8: Monthly Shelter Costs and Weekly Transportation
Cost by Location and Region 70
Table 4.9: Adjustments for Noncash Benefits Received 72
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x List of Tables
Table 4.10: Annual Before Tax Income Required to Purchase
the Goods and Services Included in the Basic
Needs Budgets: 1996 73
Table 4.11: Comparison of BNB to the Official Poverty
Line: No Noncash Benefits 75
Table 4.12: Comparison of BNB to the Official Poverty Line:
All Possible Noncash 75
Table 4.13: Comparison of the BNB to the Official Poverty
Line: Medicaid and Employer Contribution of
2/3 Health Insurance Premium 76
Table 4.14: Comparison of BNB with BLS Family Budget:
1996 dollars 77
Table 4.15: Comparison of BNB and CEX Average Total
Expenditures and Before Tax Incomes 79
Table 4.16: Comparison of BNB Expenditure Standards with
CEX Average Expenditures 80
Table 4.17: USDA Expenditures on Children compared to
BNB 82
Table 4.18: Comparison with Edin and Lein Survey 83
Table 6.1: Poverty Statistics for Single Parent Families 98
Table 6.2: Poverty Rates for Major Demographic Subgroups 99
Table 6.3: Poverty Rates by Location of Residence 101
Table 6.4: Poverty Rates by Region of Residence 101
Table 6.5: BNB Poverty Rates for Single Parent Families:
1983, 1989, 1995 103
Table 6.6: Impact of Public Assistance on Poverty Rates 105
Table 6.7: Characteristics of Poor Families 106
Table 6.8: Work vs. Welfare Decision for Single Parent
Families 107
Table 6.9: Changes in the Cost of Goods and Services
Included in the BNB Budgets for Single Parent
Families: 1983 and 1996 113
Table C. 1: Family Size Adjustments—Mother Not in the
Labor Force Rural 122
Table C.2: Family Size Adjustments—Mother Not in the
Labor Force Central City 123
Table C. 3: Family Size Adjustments—Mother Not in the
Labor Force Suburban 124
Table C.4: Family Size Adjustments—Mother Employed
Full Time Rural 125
Table C.5: Family Size Adjustments — Mother Employed
Full Time Central City 126
Table C.6: Family Size Adjustments — Mother Employed
Full Time Suburban 127
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