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  "id": "poverty",
  "name": "Poverty estimate (SAIPE)",
  "domain": "households",
  "provider": "fred",
  "code": "PPAAUS00000A156NCEN",
  "unit": "%",
  "frequency": "Annual",
  "description": "Estimated share of people of all ages in poverty in the Census Bureau’s Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates release.",
  "caveat": "This is the national SAIPE series, not the headline CPS official poverty rate or the Supplemental Poverty Measure. Methodologies and estimates differ.",
  "sourceUrl": "https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PPAAUS00000A156NCEN",
  "decimals": 1,
  "publisher": "U.S. Census Bureau, Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates",
  "observations": [
    {
      "date": "2000-01-01",
      "value": 11.3
    },
    {
      "date": "2001-01-01",
      "value": 11.7
    },
    {
      "date": "2002-01-01",
      "value": 12.1
    },
    {
      "date": "2003-01-01",
      "value": 12.5
    },
    {
      "date": "2004-01-01",
      "value": 12.7
    },
    {
      "date": "2005-01-01",
      "value": 13.3
    },
    {
      "date": "2006-01-01",
      "value": 13.3
    },
    {
      "date": "2007-01-01",
      "value": 13
    },
    {
      "date": "2008-01-01",
      "value": 13.2
    },
    {
      "date": "2009-01-01",
      "value": 14.3
    },
    {
      "date": "2010-01-01",
      "value": 15.3
    },
    {
      "date": "2011-01-01",
      "value": 15.9
    },
    {
      "date": "2012-01-01",
      "value": 15.9
    },
    {
      "date": "2013-01-01",
      "value": 15.8
    },
    {
      "date": "2014-01-01",
      "value": 15.5
    },
    {
      "date": "2015-01-01",
      "value": 14.7
    },
    {
      "date": "2016-01-01",
      "value": 14
    },
    {
      "date": "2017-01-01",
      "value": 13.4
    },
    {
      "date": "2018-01-01",
      "value": 13.1
    },
    {
      "date": "2019-01-01",
      "value": 12.3
    },
    {
      "date": "2020-01-01",
      "value": 11.9
    },
    {
      "date": "2021-01-01",
      "value": 12.8
    },
    {
      "date": "2022-01-01",
      "value": 12.6
    },
    {
      "date": "2023-01-01",
      "value": 12.5
    },
    {
      "date": "2024-01-01",
      "value": 12.1
    }
  ],
  "sourceUnits": "Percent , Not Seasonally Adjusted",
  "sourceDefinition": "",
  "sourceUpdated": null,
  "dataUrl": "https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.csv?id=PPAAUS00000A156NCEN&cosd=1999-01-01&coed=2026-10-04",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-10-04T09:04:46.416Z",
  "status": "available",
  "domainInfo": {
    "id": "households",
    "name": "Household resilience",
    "color": "#8756be"
  }
}