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GCSE Sociology · key term
An income level below which people are classified as living in poverty under a particular measure.
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Paper 1, Paper 2
Revise: Poverty in the United Kingdom by TownsendTownsend then compared deprivation scores with income. He looked for an income threshold below which deprivation increased disproportionately: as income fell below that point, deprivation rose particularly sharply. He used this relationship to establish poverty thresholds for different household types, rather than imposing one cash threshold on everybody.
Component 2
A boundary used to distinguish people classified as living in poverty from those who are not. Its position depends on how poverty is defined and measured.
Use Townsend’s historical relative income measure: below 50% of the mean income for that household type. Do not substitute a modern poverty threshold.
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By combining indicators into deprivation scores and comparing these with income, Townsend sought to identify a poverty threshold below which deprivation increased sharply.
