Definition: Estimated percentage of children ages 0-17 in living situations with incomes below their Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) threshold, by race/ethnicity (e.g., in 2021-2023, 19% of Hispanic/Latino children in California lived in poverty, according to the SPM).
Data Source: Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, Current Population Survey (IPUMS CPS). University of Minnesota (Oct. 2024).
Footnote: The Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) extends the official poverty measure by accounting for a wider range of living situations, economic resources, and expenditures. For details on the SPM and differences between the SPM and the official poverty measure, visit the U.S. Census Bureau. Race/ethnicity categories are mutually exclusive. These estimates are based on a survey of the population and are subject to both sampling and nonsampling error. The notation S refers to estimates that have been suppressed because the margin of error was greater than 5 percentage points.
