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* Principal sources of data for the Profile are the U.S. Bureau of the Census, the National Center of Health Statistics, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Profile incorporates the latest data available but not all items are updated on an annual basis.

 **Excludes persons of Hispanic origin.

 ***Calculated on the basis of the official poverty definitions for the years 1998-2000

 ****1996 figure

*****Census 2000 figure

A Profile of Older Americans: 2002 was prepared by the Administration on Aging (AoA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The annual Profile of Older Americans was originally developed and researched by Donald G. Fowles, AoA. Saadia Greenberg, AoA, updated the 2002 edition.  Editions of the Profile prior to 2000 were printed by AARP.

AoA serves as an advocate for the elderly within the federal government and is working to encourage and coordinate a responsive system of family and community based services throughout the nation. AoA helps states develop comprehensive service systems which are administer by 56 State and Territorial Units on Aging, 655 Area Agencies on Aging, over 226 Native American and Hawaiian organizations, and more than 29,000 local service providers.

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