The Bureau of Statistics began life as the Statistics Section in the Department of Planning & Program Evaluation (in the Policy and Evaluation Division whose director was Al Zariwny).

	% of Persons in Poverty		# of Persons in Poverty
	2018	2019	2018	2019
Estimate	17.5	12.5	7,400	5,300
Lower Bound	11.0	8.4	4,600	3,500
Upper Bound	24.0	16.7	10,100	7,100