The pie chart below shows the proportion of different categories of family living in poverty in UK in 2002

The pie chart illustrates the percentage of the different types of households who were living in poor conditions in Britain in 2002.
Overall, it can be seen from the pie chart that sole parents accounted for the greatest proportion of all, whereas almost all families made up a similar percentage.
In 2002 as far as people with children are concerned, sole parents took up the highest percentage at a quarter (26%), while the lowest percentage belonged to aged couples in twenty (only 5%).
Single without children was the second most popular among poor families at 24 percent. The proportion of couples with children was as common as how much all household at less than a fifth (15%). On the other hand, the percentage of couples without any children suffer from poverty as the figure of a single aged person at a very significant amount (only 9% and 7%) respectively.