Percentage of Families At or Below Poverty Level

Official NAS NAS-U DES DES-U NGA NGA-U

1997 13.3% 13.3% 15.4% 13.3% 16.0% 13.3% 15.8%
1998 12.7% 12.5% 14.4% 12.5% 15.1% 12.3% 14.6%
1999 11.8% 11.7% 13.8% 11.8% 14.3% 11.7% 14.0%
2000 13.5% 13.7% 16.1% 13.6% 16.7% 13.8% 16.6%
2001 14.2% 14.5% 16.9% 14.4% 17.6% 14.6% 17.3%
2002 14.8% 15.1% 17.6% 15.1% 18.3% 15.2% 18.2%
2003 15.1% 15.8% 18.3% 15.8% 19.0% 15.8% 18.6%
2004 15.6% 15.6% 18.0% 15.6% 18.5% 15.6% 18.3%
2005 14.8% 14.8% 17.3% 14.8% 17.9% 14.9% 17.6%
2006 14.7% 14.6% 17.0% 14.6% 17.7% 14.5% 17.2%

Average 14.05% 14.16% 16.48% 14.15% 17.11% 14.17% 16.82%

Percentage Change 9.52% 8.90% 9.41% 8.90% 9.60% 8.28% 8.14%

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Official
U.S. government
NAS National Academy of Sciences methodology - standardized
NAS-U National Academy of Sciences methodology - unstandardized
DES Different Equivalence Scale: uses three parameters to adjust thresholds by family size,
presence of children and family structure (but otherwise similar to NAS) -
standardized
DES-U Different Equivalence Scale: uses three parameters to adjust thresholds by family size,
presence of children and family structure (but otherwise similar to NAS) -
unstandardized
NGA No Geographic Adjustment (but otherwise similar to NAS) - standardized
NGA-U No Geographic Adjustment (but otherwise similar to NAS) - unstandardized
DCM Different Child Care Method: assigns fixed amounts of child care expenditures to
families based on the number and ages of children present (but otherwise similar to
NAS) - standardized
DCM-U Different Child Care Method: assigns fixed amounts of child care expenditures to
families based on the number and ages of children present (but otherwise similar to
NAS) - unstandardized

Trizten Rosal
5/8/2017
y Level
DCM DCM-U
13.3% 15.9%
12.5% 15.0%
11.9% 14.4%
13.6% 16.4%
14.3% 17.3%
15.0% 18.0%
15.7% 18.8%
15.5% 18.5%
14.8% 17.8%
14.7% 17.6%

14.13% 16.97%

9.52% 9.66%