An Updated Measure of Poverty (Re)Drawing the Line (2023) / Chapter Skim
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Yet the current data infrastructure is not ideal even for the OPM, let alone the current SPM and recommended PPM. Significant improvements are needed to advance the accuracy and detail of data underlying poverty measurement.
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of income recipiency and amounts through combining survey and administrative records; • Poverty estimates that are at least as timely as current estimates, achieved by developing models for projecting administrative records that lag in availability; • Enhanced geographic detail of poverty estimates, made possible by utilizing the large sample size of the ACS; • Quarterly or even monthly updates of selected PPM rates through use of ACS intra-year data, monthly CPS data, or both; and • Comparable PPM estimates using other major surveys, such as the ACS and SIPP.
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. The PPM will use much of the same CPS-ASEC data found in annual Census Bureau reports on health insurance coverage.
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subsidies paid directly to providers, so it would make sense for the Census Bureau to impute the value of subsidies based on reported type of care used.
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Recently, the Census Bureau has implemented a version of the SPM using the ACS as the basis for estimates (Fox et al., 2020) ; and the Census Bureau explicitly recommends using the ACS for state-based poverty estimates.
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