readme.povtha

Data Group Name: povthra (1959-2002)                                                       
                                                                               
Description:                                                                   
        Weighted Average Poverty Thresholds for Families of                    
        Specified Size by Elderly/Nonelderly  (US National Averages)           
                                                        
Data Source(s):                                                                
       webpage:  http://www.census.gov/hhes/poverty/threshld.html              

                                                                               
Comments:   1. For Years 1959-1999, poverty thresholds by age                   
               (under age 65 and aged 65 or older) were calculated              
                for unrelated individuals and 2 people households.              
                                                                                
             2. For a complete breakdown by family size                         
        	see readme.povthr, which provides these thresholds for                 
        	families of size 1-9+.                                                
                                                                                                                                                                
Usage:  To look up values of these data for a set of key variable values
        (in SAS):

        a) In your SAS program, before your data step add:

           %include 'povtha.fmt';

        b) set SUPERKEY to the combination of key variable values you
           want to look up.  See "SUPERKEY=" under key variable
           description below.

        c) use a formatted put function of SUPERKEY with the data series        
           format (See examples under "Usage" in detailed description of        
           each data series).                                                 
                                                                               
Key vars:  Varname    Typ    Description                                        
           YEAR       Num    YEAR OF WEIGHTED PROVERTY THRESHOLD                
                             Min=1959   Max=2002                                
           NFAMPERS   Num    NUMBER OF PERSONS IN FAMILY                        
                             Min=1   Max=2                                      
                                                                                
           SUPERKEY =(10*YEAR) + NFAMPERS;                                      
                                                                                
Data series [summary]:                                                          
        Varname  Fmtname   Typ    Description                                   
        -------  -------   ---    -----------                                   
        POVLS65A POVLS65A. Num    POVERTY THRESHOLD AMT LESS AGE 65             
        POVGE65A POVGE65A. Num    POVERTY THRESHOLD AMT GT/EQ AGE 65            
                                                                                
---------------------------- Data series POVLS65A----------------------------   
    Varname  Fmtname   Typ    Description                                       
    POVLS65A POVLS65A. Num    POVERTY THRESHOLD AMT LESS AGE 65                 
                              Units=Weighted average annual income              
                              Min=1503   Max=12110   Mean=5349.19318            
                              N=88   N_Missing=0                                
                                                                                
    How missings handled:                                                       
    Comments:                                                                   
    Usage: MYVAR=put(SUPERKEY,POVLS65A.);                                       
                                                                                
---------------------------- Data series POVGE65A----------------------------   
    Varname  Fmtname   Typ    Description                                       
    POVGE65A POVGE65A. Num    POVERTY THRESHOLD AMT GT/EQ AGE 65                
                              Units=Weighted average annual income              
                              Min=1397   Max=10885   Mean=4865.21591            
                              N=88   N_Missing=0                                
                                                                                
    How missings handled:                                                       
    Comments:                                                                   
    Usage: myvar=put(superkey,POVGE65A.);                                       
                                                                                
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The CONTENTS Procedure

Data Set Name: SCRLIB.POVTHA04                       Observations:         88
Member Type:   DATA                                  Variables:            4 
Engine:        V8                                    Indexes:              0 
Created:       14:57 Thursday, May 20, 2004          Observation Length:   32
Last Modified: 14:57 Thursday, May 20, 2004          Deleted Observations: 0 
Protection:                                          Compressed:           NO
Data Set Type:                                       Sorted:               NO
Label:                                                                       


           -----Alphabetic List of Variables and Attributes-----
 
#    Variable    Type    Len    Pos    Label
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2    NFAMPERS    Num       8      8    NUMBER OF PERSONS IN FAMILY        
4    POVGE65A    Num       8     24    POVERTY THRESHOLD AMT GT/EQ AGE 65 
3    POVLS65A    Num       8     16    POVERTY THRESHOLD AMT LESS AGE 65  
1    YEAR        Num       8      0    YEAR OF WEIGHTED PROVERTY THRESHOLD