Demographic characteristics of poverty-level-wage workers vs. non-poverty-level-wage workers, 2011

Note: Poverty-level-wage workers are defined as those earning at or below the wage a full-time, full-year worker would have to earn to give a family of four enough income to reach but not exceed the poverty threshold ($11.06 per hour in 2011).

Source: Authors' analysis of Current Population Survey Outgoing Rotation Group microdata

Documentation and methodology

Underlying data are from Current Population Survey Outgoing Rotation Groups microdata; see Appendix B for details. As with most other CPS microdata analyses presented in the book, race/ethnicity categories are mutually exclusive (i.e. white non-Hispanic, black non-Hispanic, and Hispanic any race).