The given diagram provides data about the ratio of various types of families living below the poverty line in UK in 2002. Overall, it is vividly seen that single parents and single couples without children account for half of the total ratio of poor households.
In detail, 26% and 24% of single parents and single people without children respectively lived in poverty in 2002 .The proportion of single and poor elderly people was almost 4 times lower than other single households, comprising only 7%.
Regarding the other categories, the least percentage of impoverished households is composed of elderly couples, with just 5% of them living below the poverty line. The proportion of poor couples with children was three times higher than that of elderly couples’. Couples without children constituted 6% less than aged couples, with 9% of them living in poverty. The percentage of poor families among all households in the country accounted for 14%.
