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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach

School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies

Cornell University

16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky

New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau

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Social Security Administration (SSA)

 

INCOME OF THE AGED CHARTBOOK, 2012 [14 April 2014]

http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/chartbooks/income_aged/2012/

or

http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/chartbooks/income_aged/2012/iac12.pdf

[full-text, 36 pages]

 

CONTENTS

Total Money Income

Percentage distribution of aged units 65 or older . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2

Percentage with various levels of income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

Median income, by age and marital status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4

Median income, by marital status, race, and Hispanic origin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Change in median income, by marital status and race, selected years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

 

Income Sources

Percentage receiving income from specified source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Percentage of aged beneficiary units receiving Social Security benefits,

by relative importance of benefits to total income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Percentage receiving income from earnings and pensions, by age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

Percentage receiving income from major sources, by race and Hispanic origin . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

Change in percentage receiving income from major sources, selected years . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Percentage with various levels of income, by receipt of asset income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

Median income, by receipt of earnings and retirement benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

 

Shares of Aggregate Income

Shares of aggregate income, by source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

Shares of aggregate income for the lowest and highest income quintiles, by source . . . . . . . . . 17

Shares of aggregate income, by source, selected years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

 

Family Income of Persons 65 or Older

Percentage distribution of persons 65 or older . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

Percentage with various levels of family income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

Median family income, by sex and age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

Median family income, by sex, race, and Hispanic origin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

Family income source, by sex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

Percentage of aged persons in families receiving Social Security benefits, by sex and relative importance of family benefits to family total income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

 

Poverty Status, Based on Family Income

Poverty status, by sex, marital status, race, and Hispanic origin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Poverty status, by age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

 

Preface

Definitions and Notes

Total Money Income

Income Sources

Shares of Aggregate Income

Family Income of Persons 65 or Older

Poverty Status, Based on Family Income

 

 

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