Table 5.
Income Deficit or Surplus of Families and Unrelated Individuals by Poverty Status: 2007
(Numbers of families and unrelated individuals in thousands, deficits and surpluses and their confidence intervals [C.I.] in dollars) Deficit or surplus per capita (dollars) 90 Esti percent 1 mate C.I. (±)
Size of deficit or surplus Characteristic Under Total $500 Below Poverty Threshold, Deficit All families . . . . . . . . . . . . Married-couple families. . . . . . . . . . . . Families with a female householder, no husband present. . . . . . . . . . . . Families with a male householder, no wife present . . . . . . . 7,623 2,849 248 114 296 140 656 306 500 208 581 254 542 221 440 158 482 181 347 130 3,530 1,138 $500 $1,000 $2,000 $3,000 $4,000 $5,000 $6,000 $7,000 $8,000 to to to to to to to to or $999 $1,999 $2,999 $3,999 $4,999 $5,999 $6,999 $7,999 more
Average deficit or surplus (dollars) 90 Esti percent 1 mate C.I. (±)
8,523 7,937
128 217
2,451 2,073
58 81
4,078 696
109 24 562 167 395
133 23 810 378 432
289 61 1,097 366 731
235 57 1,177 455 722
259 69 1,049 480 569
274 48 594 260 334
243 39 597 276 321
255 46 418 179 240
178 39 316 148 168
2,103 289 3,569 1,640 1,929
9,059 7,780 5,609 5,920 5,377
171 390 67 102 89
2,741 2,549 5,609 5,920 5,377
84 199 165 268 212
Unrelated individuals . . . 10,189 Male . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,348 Female . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,841 Above Poverty Threshold, Surplus All families . . . . . . . . . . . . 70,286 Married-couple families. . . . . . . . . . . . 55,546 Families with a female householder, no husband present. . . . . . . . . . . . 10,333 Families with a male householder, no wife present. . . . . 4,407 Unrelated individuals . . . 41,551 Male . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,099 Female . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,452
289 168
297 146
679 327
646 348
804 428
667 380
781 461
686 424
628 64,808 68,931 393 52,472 76,675
544 22,129 643 24,209
304 334
100 22 578 271 307
114 36 489 149 340
296 56 1,399 603 796
238 60 1,246 478 768
304 72 1,301 443 858
235 52 1,513 731 782
239 81 1,124 443 681
208 54 1,041 434 607
199 35
8,399 36,693 3,938 46,919
964 12,438 1,413 16,511 418 30,933 658 34,947 503 26,792
385 642 571 908 701
1,052 31,807 30,933 492 17,054 34,947 561 14,753 26,792
1 A 90-percent confidence interval is a measure of an estimate’s variability. The larger the confidence interval in relation to the size of the estimate, the less reliable the estimate. For more information, see ‘‘Standard Errors and Their Use’’ at . Note: Details may not sum to totals because of rounding. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, 2008 Annual Social and Economic Supplement.
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