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Small-Area Estimates of School-Age Children in Poverty Interim Report 2, Evaluation of Revised 1993 County Estimates for Title I Allocations (1998) / Chapter Skim
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1. INTRODUCTION
Pages 5-8

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... The poverty thresholds vary by family size and are updated by the change in the Consumer Price Index each year. See National Research Council (1995)
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... In January 1997 the Census Bureau provided to the panel the first set of updated estimates for counties of the numbers of children aged 5-17 in 1994 from families with incomes below the poverty level in 1993.4 The original 1993 county estimates were developed from a statistical model that used administrative data from Internal Revenue Service and food stamp program records for 1993, estimates of poor school-age children in 1989 from the 1990 census, and 1994 population estimates to predict poverty for school-age children in 1993 as measured in the March Income Supplement to the Current Population Survey (CPS)
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... When the developmental work began in 1994, the Census Bureau decided that it could not expect to produce estimates by the end of 1996 for a later year than 1993, given the time required for acquiring, processing, and using the data in a new statistical model. As required by the legislation, the panel's first interim report assessed the reliability and utility of the original 1993 estimates for use in Title I allocations for the 1997-1998 and 1998-1999 school years (National Research Council, 1997~.
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... Chapter 2 describes the Census Bureau's procedure for obtaining revised county estimates of the numbers and proportions of poor school-age children in 1993; the procedure uses a county model, a separate state model, and county population estimates of total school-age children. Chapter 3 describes alternative county models that were evaluated, and Chapter 4 summarizes the evaluation results.
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