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Appendix D: American Community Survey (ACS) and Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE)-Like Tabulations Requested from the U.S. Census Bureau
Pages 282-285

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... ACS TABULATIONS The goal is to obtain estimates for the percentages of public school students eligible for free, reduced-price, and full-price school meals for all school districts in the country and for the school attendance areas in the five case study districts. We would also like estimates for the total number of public school students associated with those school districts or school attendance areas.
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... Identifying Public School Students ACS person-level variables are used to define public school students: · AGEP less than or equal to 19 (defines children) ; · SCH = 2 (attended public school in last 3 months)
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... Compute count of such persons. Compute lunch index as ratio of sum of PINCP to poverty guidelines associated with number of people (using guidelines appropriate to year of ACS)
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... SAIPE-LIKE TABULATIONS The goal is to obtain SAIPE-like estimates of the percentages of public school students who are eligible for free and for reduced-price school meals, and their standard errors. The ACS-based estimates for these quantities are defined above.
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