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GCSE Sociology · key term
The percentage of people in a specified population who live in poverty.
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Component 2
Revise: Groups Prone to PovertyAround two-thirds of working-age adults in poverty lived in a household where someone worked. This is possible because working households form a much larger group: a lower poverty rate can still represent a large number of people.
Distinguish a group's poverty rate from its share of all people in poverty. A large group can contain many people in poverty despite having a relatively low poverty rate.
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