Table Data - Poverty Universe, Age 0-17 for Harford County, MD

Title Poverty Universe, Age 0-17 for Harford County, MD
Series ID PUA0T17MD24025A647NCEN
Source U.S. Census Bureau
Release Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates
Seasonal Adjustment Not Seasonally Adjusted
Frequency Annual
Units Persons
Date Range 1998-01-01 to 2024-01-01
Last Updated 2026-02-09 5:25 PM CST
Notes The U.S. Census Bureau provides annual estimates of income and poverty statistics for all school districts, counties, and states through the Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) program. The bureau's main objective with this program is to provide estimates of income and poverty for the administration of federal programs and the allocation of federal funds to local jurisdictions. In addition to these federal programs, state and local programs use the income and poverty estimates for distributing funds and managing programs.

Poverty universe is one of the data sources used in producing SAIPE program estimates, it is made up of persons for whom the Census Bureau can determine poverty status (either "in poverty" or "not in poverty"). The definition of poverty universe for SAIPE estimates is the same for 2006 and beyond and conceptually matches the poverty universe of the American Community Survey (ACS). The poverty universe estimates are not the same as the population estimates from the Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program. Instead, they are derived estimates that differ from population estimates in the following ways:
1. The poverty universe does not include children under the age of 15 who are not related to a reference person within the household by way of birth, marriage or adoption (for example, foster children). The reason is that Census Bureau surveys typically ask income questions only of persons age 15 or older and those under 15 related to a reference person within the household.
2. Beginning with 2006, the poverty universe includes group quarters populations only for noninstitutionalized group quarters, not elsewhere classified. Residents of college dormitories, military housing, and all institutional group quarters populations are excluded. The 2005 poverty universe estimates excluded all group quarters' residents, matching the definition of the 2005 ACS. Prior to the estimates for 2005, the poverty universe data were derived from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement of the Current Population Survey. This marks a break in the data series due to a methodology change.

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DATE VALUE
1998-01-01 60169
1999-01-01 60838
2000-01-01 60451
2001-01-01 61109
2002-01-01 60431
2003-01-01 61737
2004-01-01 62570
2005-01-01 61420
2006-01-01 59764
2007-01-01 59996
2008-01-01 58880
2009-01-01 59255
2010-01-01 59623
2011-01-01 58374
2012-01-01 57930
2013-01-01 57590
2014-01-01 56887
2015-01-01 56171
2016-01-01 56024
2017-01-01 56143
2018-01-01 55701
2019-01-01 55752
2020-01-01 55912
2021-01-01 57876
2022-01-01 57558
2023-01-01 57524
2024-01-01 57366

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