Variable fplcat1: Percent 2018 Federal Poverty Level Category [C]

Literal Question

To construct the FPL variable, the following input variables were used: total household income ('INC_2'), total people supported by household income ('INC_3'), and number of children supported by the household income ('INC_4A OR INC_4B'). In instances where INC_3 had no data, the total number of adults in the household from the screener was used.

Descriptive Text

The federal poverty level (FPL) variable is based on the Census Bureau poverty thresholds for 2018 by size of family and number of related children under 18 years. The universe for this variable includes adult respondents and children (kids are not included in the post-Harvey dataset).

Values	Categories	N	NW
1	Less than 100% FPL	540	689,101.5	20.7%
2	100% to 199% FPL	514	657,712.6	19.8%
3	200% to 299% FPL	415	489,696.0	14.7%
4	300% to 399% FPL	305	336,185.4	10.1%
5	400% to 499% FPL	269	275,332.4	8.3%
6	500% or greater FPL	942	879,443.9	26.4%

Summary Statistics

Valid cases	2985	3327471.745
Missing cases	0	0.0
Standard deviation	1.928	1.907
This variable is numeric

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