Impact on poverty rate of economic, demographic, and education changes, select periods, 1979–2012 (percentage points)

1979–1989 1989–2000 2000–2007 1979–2007 2007–2012
Actual change 1.2 -1.5 1.2 0.8 2.5
Total demographic effect -0.2 -0.6 -0.1 -0.8 0.1
Race 0.4 0.4 0.1 0.9 0.2
Education -1.2 -1.1 -0.4 -2.7 -0.2
Family structure 0.7 0.4 0.3 1.4 0.2
Interaction -0.1 -0.2 -0.1 -0.4 -0.1
Economic change 1.4 -0.9 1.2 1.7 2.4
Growth -1.8 -2.1 0.1 -3.8 0.4
Inequality 3.2 1.2 1.1 5.5 1.9

Source: Authors' analysis of Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement microdata based on Danziger and Gottschalk (1995)

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