0 the official level of income that is needed to achieve a basic living standard with enough money for things such as food, clothing, and a place to live:
1 the amount of income a person or family needs in order to maintain an acceptable standard of living, and below which they are considered poor
2 the official level of income that is needed to achieve a basic living standard with enough money for things such as food, clothing, and a place to live:
In comparison, the minimum wage in 1968 brought a threeperson family to 120 per cent of the poverty line.
If they had two children, that income would have been $2,126 above the poverty line of $17,650.
One significant finding of this is that 20% of children live below the national poverty line.
There are many ways of calculating a poverty line.
This might suggest that the calculation of the poverty line at 25 yen was favourable to the poor.
However, as the results in table 3 illustrate, the increase in income is insufficient to get them over the poverty line.
However, it accords a greater weight to poor individuals who are further away from the poverty line.
The proportion of people below the poverty line declined from 60 per cent to around 11 per cent from 1970 to 1996.
