The pie chart illustrates the distribution of various types of households living in poverty in the UK in 2002.
From the pie chart, it is obvious that solo parent families and single individuals without children were more likely to face poverty compared to other household categories. In contrast, older couples and single aged persons are less affected by poverty.
The data shows that solo parents experienced the highest rates of misery, having 26%. However, single individuals without children were not that far from those numbers, with 24% of this group living below the poverty line. On the contrary, couples without children showed a relatively lower share of almost a tenth, while couples with children had 15%.
Aged couples represented the group with the lowest proportion of families living in poverty, with just 5%. Similarly, single aged persons had to face poor financial states more rarely, having just 7% of the category.
