Figure 2-14a and b How Workers (Below the Poverty Level) Get To Work: 2012
a Public transportation category includes workers who used a bus or trolley bus, streetcar or trolley car, subway or elevated, railroad, or ferryboat.
b Other means includes ferryboats, surface trains, and van service and other means not classified.
NOTES: Percents may not add to 100 due to rounding. For additional information, please refer to the American Community Survey’s 2012 Subject
Definitions, available at http://www.census.gov/acs/. Workers are civilians and members of the Armed Forces, 16 years and older, who were at work
the previous week. Persons on vacation or not at work the prior week are not included.
SOURCES: Below Poverty Level: U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, 2012 American Community Survey, 1-year estimates, table
B08122. Available at http://www.census.gov/acs/www/index.html as of June 2015. Total: U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, 2012
American Community Survey, 1-year estimates, table B08006. Available at http://www.census.gov/acs/www/index.html as of June 2015.