Chapter 1: Q. 8 (page 77)
Household incomes Rich and poor households differ in ways that go beyond income. Following are histograms that compare the distributions of household size (number of people) for low-income and high-income households.53 Low-income households had annual incomes less than \(15,000, and high-income households had annual incomes of at least \)100,000.
(a) About what percent of each group of households consisted of two people?
(b) What are the important differences between these two distributions? What do you think explains these differences?
Short Answer
The answer for (a) is the household of two peoples comprise almost 20% of those who are low income and almost 35% of those who are high income.
(b) is : Less than 10% of households with a high income and consist of 1 person.