Primary poverty
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Primary poverty is a categorisation of poverty created by Seebohm Rowntree. Primary poverty is the name given to a group of people who lived below Seebohm Rowntree's poverty line. To live in primary poverty is to have insufficient income to afford basic needs. According to his study in York 10% of the city’s population lived in primary poverty. Rowntree describes this group as having "insufficient to obtain the minimum necessaries for the maintenance of mere physical efficiency".
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- Briggs, Asa: "A Study of the Work of Seebohm Rowntree: 1871-1954", Longmans, 1961
- Rowntree, B S: "Poverty: A Study in Town Life", page 298. Macmillian and CO., 1901
- University of Glasgow, Extracts from B. Seebohm Rowntree, Poverty: A Study of Town Life
