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Home IELTS Writing Academic Writing Task 1

Proportion of families living in poverty in the UK

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The pie chart below 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.

» Write at least 150 words.

Proportion of families living in poverty in the UK.1

Sample Answer 1:


The pie chart outlines the percentages of poor family types in the United Kingdom in 2002. Generally speaking, 14% British households were insolvent in 2002 and half of those poor families were sole parents and singles without any child.

As can be seen, 26% sole parents in the United Kingdom were economically insolvent in 2002 and this was the highest ratio for the poor British family types. Poverty was prevalent among the singles without children as 24% of them were under the poverty line. These two types of households accounted for half of the total poverty-stricken families in the UK in 2002.

Couples with children had greater poverty rate than couples without children. While the 15% former family types witnessed economic misfortune, the latter accounted for 9% of such households. It is worth noticing that ages British had fewer poverty rates than their younger counterparts. One in twenty aged couples had to go through financial hardships while it was 7% for the single aged person.

Sample Answer 2:


The pie chart shows data on the different family types under the poverty line in the year 2001 in the UK. As is presented in the graph, sole parents and single person without children were the highest in percentages who lived in the destitute condition in the UK in 2002.

According to the pie chart, people in the UK who were poor mostly fell under sole parent category in 2002. This was the highest, more than one quarter, among the given categories of families who lived in paucity. The second largest segment who were needy were the single person without any child and their percentage was 24%. Couples with children had 15% poverty rate while it was less than 10% for single aged people, aged couple and couples with children.

In this year, 14% of all household in the UK were living in poverty. Interestingly, aged people had less percentage of poverty and couples with children enjoyed better economic condition than the couples without children.

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