Well-Being

Data Tables, Products and Reports

Extended Measures of Well-Being

• Extended Measures of Well-being: Living Conditions in the United States: 2005
• Extended Measures of Well-Being: Living Conditions in the United States: 2003 
  • Report [PDF - 486K]  (P70-110)
  • Detailed Tables
• Extended Measures of Well-Being: Living Conditions in the United States: 1998 
  • Report [PDF - 520K]  (P70-87)
  • Detailed Tables (PPL-170)
• Extended Measures of Well Being, Meeting Basic Needs: 1995 [PDF - 163K]  (P70-67)
• Beyond Poverty: Extended Measures of Well Being: 1992 
  • Report [PDF - 12K]  (P70-50rv)
  • Detailed Tables
• Extended Measures of Well Being: Selected Data from the 1984 Survey of Income and Program Participation [PDF - 113M]  (P70-26)

Supplemental Measures of Material Well-Being

• Basic Needs, Consumer Durables, Energy, and Poverty, 1981-2002 [PDF - 733K]  (P23-202)
• Expenditures, Consumption, and Poverty 1998 and 2001 [PDF - 181K]  (P23-201)

Related Papers and Presentations

Dependency Ratios in the United States: A State and Metropolitan Area Analysis. [PDF - 5.4M] , by Thom File and Robert Kominski. Data from the 2009 American Community Survey. Issued January 2012.

Income Poverty and Material Hardship: How Strong is the Association? [PDF - 318K] , by John Iceland and Kurt J. Bauman. (National Poverty Center Working Paper Series No. 04-17)  Issued December 2004.

Age and Material Well-Being in the Survey of Income and Program Participation [PDF - 87K] , by Kurt J. Bauman. Presented at the Joint Statistical Meeting, San Francisco, CA, August 2003.

Changes in Living Conditions and Material Well-Being in the Survey of Income and Program Participation [DOC - 360K] , by Kurt J. Bauman. Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Economic Association, Washington, DC, December 2002.

The Effect of Work and Welfare on Living Conditions in Single Parent Households [HTML] [PDF - 181K], by Kurt J. Bauman. (Population Division Working Paper No. 46)  Issued August 2000.

Measures of Help Available to Households in Need: Their Relation to Well-being, Welfare, and Work [HTML] [PDF - 88K], by Kurt J. Bauman and Barbara A. Downs. (Population Division Working Paper No. 42)  Issued May 2000.

Direct Measures of Poverty as Indicators of Economic Need: Evidence from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, by Kurt J. Bauman. (Population Division Working Paper No. 30)  Issued November 1998.

Developing Extended Measures of Well-Being - Minimum Income and Subjective Income Assessments [PDF - 12K] , by Robert Kominski and Kathleen Short. (SIPP Working Paper 228)  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Statistical Association, Chicago, IL. Issued August 4-8, 1996.