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

The pie chart shows the proportion of different categories of families living in poverty in the UK in 2002. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
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The pie chart illustrates the percentage of seven specific groups of poor
families
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 in the UK in 2002.
It is clear that
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 the most numerous groups were sole parents and single
families
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 without children,
whereas
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 the least proportions were related to single aged persons and aged couples.
Overall
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, the vast
majoruty
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majority
 of citizens in need were younger ones, as opposed to a small minority of elderly sectors. Focusing first on the most substantial groups of households, one-fourth of single
families
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withhout
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without
 offspring,
as well as
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 the same proportion of sole parents, had problems with their income.
In addition
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, couples
hawing
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having
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 children and all households
acoounted
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accounted
each
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for about 15% of the total number of households. As for the remaining sectors, the percentage for single aged individuals and aged couples were nearly the same, with approximately 5% for each of these types of
families
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, as opposed to the double percentage for spouses without children.

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Vocabulary: Replace the words families with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "percentage" was used 3 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "proportions" was used 2 times.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • proportion
  • category
  • families
  • poverty
  • UK
  • single-parent families
  • couples with children
  • disparities
  • economic factors
  • welfare support
  • job market conditions
  • social issues
  • proportional breakdown
  • significant percentage
  • data summary
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