Dividends include income people receive from stock holdings and mutual fund shares. The CPS does not include capital gains from the sale of stock holdings as income. Rents, royalties, and estates and trusts includes net income people receive from the rental of a house, store, or other property, receipts from boarders or lodgers, net royalty income, and periodic payments from estate or trust funds. Child support includes all periodic payments a parent receives from an absent parent for the support of children, even if these payments are made through a state or local government office. Alimony includes all periodic payments people receive from ex-spouses.
Alimony excludes one-time property settlements.
Financial assistance from outside of the household includes periodic payments people receive from nonhousehold members. This type of assistance excludes gifts or sporadic assistance. Other income includes all other payments people receive regularly that are not included elsewhere on the questionnaire. Total money earnings is the algebraic sum of money wages and salary and net income from farm and nonfarm self-employment. Income other than earnings is the algebraic sum of all sources of money income except wages and salaries and income from self-employment.