Five-Year Trends Available for Median Income, Poverty and Internet Use

Re:Five-Year Trends Available for Median Income, Poverty and... by stdplaceholder on Thursday December 06, 2018 @12:09PM (#18619842)

This summary of facts seems quite useless, presented as it is by county. If poverty declined in two counties and increased in two counties, it makes a difference which counties were which. If Mono County and Alpine County are declining and San Mateo and Santa Clara are increasing, that is a very different phenomenon than the reverse.

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Re:Five-Year Trends Available for Median Income, Poverty and... by craftyguy on Thursday December 06, 2018 @12:15PM (#18619914)

I agree. The maps weight counties by area (naturally), but it would have been more useful to weight counties by population. A 2% increase in poverty in a county with 1 million people is more significant than a 2% increase in poverty in a county with 1000 people.

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Re:Five-Year Trends Available for Median Income, Poverty and... by reaperducer on Thursday December 06, 2018 @02:26PM (#18621203)

This summary of facts seems quite useless, presented as it is by county.

My guess is that it's by county because this is 2018. The full census is done every ten years. More granular information will come after the next full census.

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Re:Five-Year Trends Available for Median Income, Poverty and... by lotsofpulp on Thursday December 06, 2018 @06:02PM (#18623352)

Assuming it’s properly funded and executed, which the current party in power probably doesn’t want.

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Re:Five-Year Trends Available for Median Income, Poverty and... by shaki-dora on Thursday December 06, 2018 @12:25PM (#18620061)

As you note, this is just a summary of some highlights. The “new” in this news just happens to be the availability of data at the regional level. Overall data waspreviously released, and is therefore not featured in this press release.

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