The above diagrams illustrate a pie chart and a bar graph. The pie chart represents the poverty rate of women for the family composition of household whereas the bar graph shows poverty rates by sex and age. Overall, the data in both the charts is represented percentage form.
The Pie chart has 4 different categories, starting with single women with no dependent child at 54%, which contributes to highest rate of women poverty in family composition of household. Single women with dependant child have a poverty rate of 26% making it 2nd highest category in the pie chart. Married women with or without child accounted for only about one fifth of the poverty index.
Moving towards the bar graph, poverty rates are the highest for children standing at approximately 21% for under 5-year-olds and 15% for 5–17-year-olds. However, with increasing age there is a subsequent drop in the poverty rate till the age of 45-54. Poverty rate declined throughout the adult years for both sexes, but a gap remained and this gap almost doubled in old age. Women’s poverty rate is consistently higher than men’s across all ages.