It's not actual data.
It's jury-rigged data.
They even lay out how it's different in the actual report, which none of you bothered to read because why would lazy people research their own bullshit?
Measurement Units
Standard Poverty Rate: Families (individuals related by birth, marriage, or adoption) or unrelated individuals
Supplemental Poverty Rate: Resource units (official family definition plus any coresident unrelated children, foster children, and unmarried partners and their relatives) or unrelated individuals (who are not otherwise included in the family definition)
Poverty Threshold
Standard Poverty Rate: Three times the cost of a minimum food diet in 1963
Supplemental Poverty Rate: Based on expenditures of food, clothing, shelter, and utilities (FCSU)
Threshold Adjustments
Standard Poverty Rate: Vary by family size, composition, and age of householder
Supplemental Poverty Rate: Vary by family size and composition, as well as geographic adjustments for differences in housing costs by tenure
Updating Thresholds (THIS IS A BIG ONE)
Standard Poverty Rate: Consumer Price Index: all items
Supplemental Poverty Rate: 5-year moving average of expenditures on FCSU
Resource Measure (THIS IS THE BIGGEST ONE)
Standard Poverty Rate: Gross before-tax cash income
Supplemental Poverty Rate: Sum of cash income, plus noncash benefits that resource units can use to meet their FCSU needs, minus taxes (or plus tax credits), work expenses, medical expenses, and child support
paid to another household