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An Equity Profile of Orange County
Selected terms and general notes
Data and methods
(continued)
General notes on analyses
Below we provide some general notes about
the analysis conducted:
• In regard to monetary measures (income,
earnings, wages, etc.) the term "real"
indicates the data have been adjusted for
inflation. All inflation adjustments are based
on the Consumer Price Index for all Urban
Consumers (CPI-U) from the U.S. Bureau of
Labor Statistics, available at:
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.t01.ht
m (see table 24).
• Some may wonder why the graph on page
43 indicates the years 1979, 1989, and
1999 rather than the actual survey years
from which the information is drawn (1980,
1990, and 2000, respectively). This is
because income information in the
decennial census for those years is reported
for the year prior to the survey. While
seemingly inconsistent, the actual survey
years are indicated in the graphs on page 44
depicting rates of poverty and working
poverty, as these measures are partly based
on family composition and work efforts at
the time of the survey, in addition to income
from the year prior to the survey.
