The pie chart below shows the proportion of different categories of families living in poverty in UK in 2002. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The pie chart illustrates the percentage of poor types of families in the UK in 2002.

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, it can be noticed that the number of single people with and without

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living in poverty is much higher than the number of couples. It's clear that the least poor

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category is the aged population and couples without

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less than 10, which consists of one-tenth of the pie.

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to that, we can see single people who suffer from poverty most at 24% and parents who raise

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alone at 26%, which is nearly one-fifth of the chart. The next ones, who don't show a significant index but still have an impact on data, are all households and full families with

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with approximately 15%. As a final observation, we can find out 3 general categories of families with 3 types of poverty levels. Those are the aged ones, singles and couples.