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 outlines the percentages of poor family

types

in the United Kingdom in 2002. Generally speaking, 14%

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households were insolvent in 2002 and half of those poor families were sole parents and singles without any child. As can be seen, 26%

sole

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parents in the United Kingdom were economically insolvent in 2002 and

this

was the highest ratio for the poor British family

types

.

Poverty

was prevalent among the singles without children as 24% of them were under the

poverty

line. These two

types

of households accounted for half of the total

poverty

-stricken families in the UK in 2002. Couples with children had

greater

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poverty

rate than couples without children.

While

the 15%

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family

types

witnessed economic misfortune, the latter accounted for 9% of

such

households. It is worth noticing that ages British had fewer

poverty

rates than their younger counterparts. One in twenty aged couples had to go through financial hardships

while

it was 7% for the single aged person.