2007 County-Level Poverty Rates for Rhode Island

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				All people in poverty (2007)			Children ages 0-17 in poverty (2007)
					90% confidence interval of estimate			90% confidence interval of estimate
	FIPS*	Name	RUC Code¹	Percent	Lower bound	Upper bound	Percent	Lower bound	Upper bound
1	44000	Rhode Island		11.9	11.4	12.4	16.9	15.8	17.9
2	44001	Bristol County	1	6.7	5.3	8.0	5.9	4.4	7.5
3	44003	Kent County	1	6.6	5.4	7.7	8.6	6.5	10.7
4	44005	Newport County	1	8.3	6.7	9.8	9.7	7.4	12.1
5	44007	Providence County	1	15.4	14.0	16.8	22.2	19.4	25.0
6	44009	Washington County	1	6.3	5.1	7.4	7.2	5.5	8.9

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¹The 2003 rural-urban continuum codes classify metropolitan counties (codes 1 through 3) by size of the Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), and nonmetropolitan counties (codes 4 through 9) by degree of urbanization and proximity to metro areas. See rural-urban continuum codes for precise definitions of each code.

Source: Bureau of the Census, Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates.

*See the Census Bureau web site for a description of FIPS codes.