Appendix B: Detailed Data Tables

USER GUIDE. Detailed data tables are provided in Appendix B. Generally, figures in the text section provide only the percentage of the population who fall below the True Cost of Living. The corresponding appendix tables are more detailed, providing the raw numbers for each group as well as percentages. Note that if there is no data in the cell, the counts are zero. Table 4. shows an example of the data included in the appendix tables. Each column details the following data:

A. The total number of households in New York City within the row group and the total percentage in the row group are of all New York City households. When appropriate, the characteristics of the householder are reported. For example, women head 1,381,725 households and are 53% of all householders in New York City. Note that the total percentage of persons in New York City who are women may be different than percentage of who are householders

B. The number and percentage of households whose incomes are below both the poverty threshold and the TCL (because the poverty threshold is so low, families below the poverty threshold are always below the TCL). In New York City, there are 241,641 households headed by women in poverty and 17 percent of all households headed by women are in poverty.

C. The number and percentage of households whose incomes are above the poverty threshold, but below the TCL. In New York City, there are 476,862 households headed by women who are not considered poor by the poverty threshold yet are still below the TCL.

D. The total number and percentage of households below the TCL (columns B + C). This report focuses on the results of column D. In New York City, there are 718,503 households headed by women with inadequate income representing a total of 52% of households headed by women.

E. The number and percentage of households whose incomes are above the TCL (which is always above the poverty threshold).

In addition to looking at the income inadequacy rate of groups (column D in Table 4), throughout the report we also discuss the characteristics of households living below the TCL. For example, there are 1,034,565 households below the TCL in New York City and 718,503 of those households are headed by women (69 percent).

Table 5. The True Cost of Living and Official Poverty Threshold by Select Characteristics of Householder and Household

Table 5. The True Cost of Living and Official Poverty Threshold by Select Characteristics of Householder and Household

Table 5. The True Cost of Living and Official Poverty Threshold by Select Characteristics of Householder and Household

Table 5. The True Cost of Living and Official Poverty Threshold by Select Characteristics of Householder and Household

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2021 ACS 1-Year Public Use Microdata Sample.

Table 5. The True Cost of Living and Official Poverty Threshold by Select Characteristics of Householder and Household

Table 6. The True Cost of Living and Official Poverty Threshold by Select Characteristics of Householder

Table 6. The True Cost of Living and Official Poverty Threshold by Select Characteristics of Householder

Table 6. The True Cost of Living and Official Poverty Threshold by Select Characteristics of Householder

Table 6. The True Cost of Living and Official Poverty Threshold by Select Characteristics of Householder

Table 6. The True Cost of Living and Official Poverty Threshold by Select Characteristics of Householder

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2021 ACS 1-Year Public Use Microdata Sample.

Table 6. The True Cost of Living and Official Poverty Threshold by Select Characteristics of Householder

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2021 ACS 1-Year Public Use Microdata Sample.

Table 7. Historical Profile of Households Below the True Cost of Living (formerly the New York City Self-Sufficiency Standard)

The Center for Women’s Welfare

The Center for Women’s Welfare at the University of Washington School of Social Work is devoted to furthering the goal of economic justice for women and their families. The main work of the Center focuses on the development of the Self-Sufficiency Standard and related measures, calculations, and analysis. The Center partners with a range of government, non-profit, women’s, children’s, and community-based groups to:

• research and evaluate public policy related to income adequacy;

• create tools to assess and establish income adequacy and benefit eligibility;

• develop policies that strengthen public investment in low-income women and families.

Learn more about the Center and the Self-Sufficiency Standard research project at www.selfsufficiencystandard.org

Acknowledgments

We appreciate the contributions of the following Center for Women’s Welfare staff for their work on this report:

Director Lisa Manzer, MPA

Technical Contributor

Hector J. Sosa

Author Annie Kucklick, MSW

Editorial Contributors

Founder Emerita

Dr. Diana Pearce, PhD

Alyssa Mast, Sarah Brolliar, MPH, Devon Bushnell