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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. Chart title: Proportion of people from each household type living in poverty. It is one pie chart, with no table and no second chart. The legend has seven entries: Single aged persons, Aged Couple, Single without children, Couple without children, Sole Parents, Couple with children, and All households. The figures are 7, 5, 24, 9, 26, 15 and 14 percent, which add up to 100 percent. Single aged persons 7, Aged Couple 5, Single without children 24, Couple without children 9, Sole Parents 26, Couple with children 15, All households 14. Note: All households at 14 percent is not a total. It is just one category, and it works as the national average.

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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. Chart title: Proportion of people from each household type living in poverty. It is one pie chart, with no table and no second chart. The legend has seven entries: Single aged persons, Aged Couple, Single without children, Couple without children, Sole Parents, Couple with children, and All households. The figures are 7, 5, 24, 9, 26, 15 and 14 percent, which add up to 100 percent. Single aged persons 7, Aged Couple 5, Single without children 24, Couple without children 9, Sole Parents 26, Couple with children 15, All households 14. Note: All households at 14 percent is not a total. It is just one category, and it works as the national average.
The pie chart illustrates the proportion of different categories of families living in poverty in the United Kingdom in 2002.
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, poverty was far more common among single-adult
households
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 than among
couples
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, and single-aged
households
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 were the least affected. Notably, three of the seven categories recorded a higher figure than the 14% recorded for all
households
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. Sole parents had the highest proportion, at 26%,
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 single people without children followed closely behind at 24%. Together, these two groups accounted for exactly half of the total.
Couples
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 with children were the third highest, at 15%, just one percentage point above the figure for all
households
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. The remaining categories were considerably less affected.
Couples
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 without children accounted for 9%,
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single aged
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single-aged
 persons made up 7%. Aged
couples
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 had the lowest proportion, at 5%, under one-fifth of the figure for sole parents. Within both age groups, single people were more likely to be poor than
couples
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Vocabulary: The word "proportion" was used 3 times.
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