Civic Report No. 44 December 2004

Table 8. Contribution of Key Variables to the Decline in Child Poverty Rates, Various Demographic groups, 1995 to 2002
	All Households				Single-Mother Families
	All	BNH	H	WNH	All	BNH	H	WNH
Percentage-point decline in child
poverty rate: 1995–2002	4.2	9.5	11.7	1.9	9.9	14.1	17.6	4.0
Percent of total decline contributed by:
Education	16.8	15.5	11.7	30.0	10.2	9.9	10.8	11.6
Number of children in HH	9.3	17.2	11.1	3.4	16.4	22.3	7.4	16.2
TPF* work	2.6	12.9	19.4	-5.8	NA	NA	NA	NA
SMF* work	9.9	21.2	5.1	-5.2	32.9	36.2	36.8	20.7
SFF* work	9.0	0.4	7.7	13.8	NA	NA	NA	NA
HS wage	49.1	18.3	22.4	74.8	27.6	17.8	18.6	16.7
All other factors	3.3	14.5	22.6	10.9	12.9	13.8	26.4	34.7
* HH: household; TPF: two-parent families; SMF: single-mother families; SFF: single-father families; HS: high school; BNH: black  non-Hispanic; H: Hispanic; WNH: white non-Hispanic.
Note: The contributions of parents’ characteristics, changes in the unemployment rate, etc., to the decrease in the percent below poverty among children are estimated based on regression coefficients that measure the effect of each of these factors on the percent below poverty and the changes in the proportion of children exposed to the variables. See text for additional explanation. (Also see Appendix Table A1 & A2.)

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