Data Bank

Downloadable spreadsheets, tables and charts.

Welfare Reform and Social  Indicators

• County by county data sheets on welfare reform and other social indicators in PDF format.

Employment

• New York City employment effects resulting from the World Trade Center attact.

• For the past four years, upstate New York has lagged well behind the downstate region in job growth. Percent change in average annual employment: 1997 to 2001.

• New York's job growth was slowing before September 11, but New York entered the recession later than the U.S. Graph depicting seasonally adjusted month-to-month job change January 2000 to December 2001

• New York has lost over 250,000 middle income jobs in the 1990s. Table showing nine industries with substantial job declines including peak employment, 1998 employment, and regions most affected.

• Most upstate areas had weak total wage growth in the 1990s, often accompanied by paltry job growth and population decline.

Income

• Median Income of Households by State: 1998

• County Estimates for Median Household Income for New York: 1995

• Median Household Income by State: 1969, 1979, and 1989

• Median Family Income by State: 1959, 1969, 1979, and 1989

• Per Capita Income by State: 1959, 1969, 1979, and 1989

• In the last decade, transfer payments accounted for virtually all the income growth in Upstate New York. Table showing 1989-97 change in personal income by component (wages & salaries, proprietors' income, dividends, interest & rent and transfer payments) for New York, United States and New York's major regions.

• Wall Street-related capital gains are an increasing share of the growth in New York's taxable income base. Data from the NYS Division of the Budget showing actual and estimated net capital gains and total adjusted gross income for 1991 to 2000.

• The extended bull market has kept Wall Street wages, bonuses and profits high. Chart showing the growth in Wall Street wages, bonuses and profits between 1991 and 1999.

• Although Wall Street accounts for only 2% of all jobs in the State, it has accounted for over half of the direct growth in output and earnings.  Table showing absolute change in gross state product by industry between 1982 and 1989 and between 1992 and 1997.

Poverty

• New York State Self-Sufficiency Standard.  Excel spreadsheets with the standard for 70 family types for each county in New York State.

• U.S. Census Bureau Poverty Thresholds in 1999, by Size of Family and Number of Related Children Under 18 Years

• Department of Health and Human Services Poverty Guidelines for 2000

• New York State Office of Children and Family Services 2000 Income Eligibility Standards
  

• Median Income, Poverty Rate, Unemployment Rate and Health Insurance Coverage Rate:  New York State vs US: 1986-1998  
  

• Persons in Poverty and Poverty Rate - New York State 1980-1998

• Percent of Persons in Poverty, by State: 1996, 1997, and 1998

• Low Income Uninsured Children by State: 1996, 1997, and 1998
  

• New York Statewide 1998 data:  persons in poverty and poverty rate for persons of all ages, all children, school age children, persons 65 years of age and older, families and female-headed families with children.

• Estimates of School-age Children in Poverty: New York State School Districts:  1995

• State Estimates for Related Children Age 5 to 17 in Families in Poverty for US: 1996

• County Estimates for People of All Ages in Poverty for New York: 1995

• County Estimates for People Under Age 18 in Poverty for New York: 1995

• County Estimates for Related Children Age 5 to 17 in Families in Poverty for New York: 1995
  

Income Inequality

• Summary data on income inequality in New York State

• Summary data on income inequality in New York City PMSA

• Summary data on income inequality in New York State excluding the New York City PMSA

• Gini Ratios by State: 1969, 1979, 1989

• Most of New York's growing industries pay wages below the average. Industries losing jobs in New York during this expansion tend to pay wages well above the average. Tables showing change in employment levels between 1992 and 1998 and 1998 average wages for 15 private growing industries and 15 private declining industries.

• All but the highest paid workers in New York have seen wage declines in the 1990s. 1989 and 1998 decile wages in 1998 dollars.

• The wages of the typical New York worker have declined in the 1990s. Median wages in 1979, 1989 and 1998 in 1998 dollars for the U.S., New York and eight other mature industrial states.

• While the "average" wage level in New York has climbed, the median wage remains well below the 1989 level. Chart comparing average wage, median wage and average wage excluding the securities industry:   1989 to 1998.

• Only women with a college education have seen wage gains.  1989 and 1998 average wages by gender and educational level.

• Union membership and density have declined in New York.  Union membership in 1988 and 1998 by employment sector.