[acs-r] block group poverty measures ACS tables

[Corrales, Mark]

Actually, the file you would want is this one:
ftp://newftp.epa.gov/EJSCREEN/ACS2008-2012_EJSCREEN_inputs_raw_count_tables_with_MOE_by_block_group.zip

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Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 17:01:32 +0000
From: "Corrales, Mark" <Corrales.Mark at epa.gov>
Subject: [acs-r] block group poverty measures ACS tables
To: "acs-r at mit.edu" <acs-r at mit.edu>

For the 5-year summary file only, ACS table C17002 has poverty information by block group, and that is the one I have found most useful in our work (http://www2.epa.gov/ejscreen). In fact if you need nationwide block group estimates from that table, we posted those here for the 2008-2012 dataset:
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Percent poor would be calculated as (C17002.002 + C17002.003) / C17002.001
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