Transfer Payments by Major Source, (CA35): Counties in the U.S., 1959; 1962; 1965-1997

<p>In personal income, transfer payments are income payments to persons for which no current services are performed. They are payments by government and business to individuals and nonprofit institutions. (1) Transfer payments accounted for more than 13 percent of total personal income at the national level in 1999 (Table F). Estimates are prepared for approximately 50 subcomponents of transfer payments. (2) For organizational convenience, the subcomponents are classified by source—government or business—and by recipient—individuals or nonprofit institutions. In this discussion, transfer payments consists of three major components—government payments to individuals, government and business payments to nonprofit institutions, and business payments to individuals. At the county level, approximately 75 percent of the estimates of transfer payments are derived from data for the payments. The remaining 25 percent are allocations of the State estimates in proportion either to data that are related to the components or to the most relevant population series.</p>

在个人收入范畴中，转移支付（transfer payments）指的是向个人支付的、无需其提供当期服务的收入款项。这类支付由政府及企业向个人和非营利机构（nonprofit institutions）发放。(1)1999年，转移支付在全国个人总收入中的占比超过13%（见表F）。目前已针对转移支付的约50个子项编制了估算数据。(2)为便于组织管理，这些子项按资金来源（政府或企业）和受款对象（个人或非营利机构）进行分类。本讨论将转移支付划分为三大核心组成部分：政府向个人的支付、政府及企业向非营利机构的支付，以及企业向个人的支付。在县级层面，转移支付估算数据中约75%来自于具体支付事项的数据，剩余25%则是根据与各子项相关的数据或最相关的人口序列，按比例分配的州级估算值。