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Table 4 Pathways into multidimensional poverty between 2001 and 2009. Sample with insufficient level of education attainment, aged 55 and over in 2001, who were in multidimensional poverty in 2009

From: Pathways into chronic multidimensional poverty amongst older people: a longitudinal study

1st form of disadvantage

2nd form of disadvantage

Number

% of those with three forms of disadvantage

Mean length of time in poverty (years)

Proportion in chronic poverty

Poor health

Low income

45 000

24 %

4.4

49 %

Low income

Poor Health

97 300

51 %

9.3

98 %

Poor health and low income simultaneously

30 400

16 %

2.9

30 %

Unknown order

13 500

7 %

10

100 %