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Q.Collect information and fill in a table with the amount of money spent (in rupees) by four low-income families (A, B, C, D) on various commodities — wheat/rice, vegetable oil, sugar, electricity/lighting, ghee, clothes and house rent. Analyse the data to find which family is relatively poor compared with the others; also find who are absolutely poor if the poverty line is fixed at an expenditure of ₹500 per month per person.

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An open-ended data activity: record four families' monthly spending on given commodities, rank them for relative poverty, then apply the ₹500/person line for absolute poverty. Use your own collected figures.

The table to fill

Collect each family's monthly spending (₹) on the listed items:

CommodityFamily AFamily BFamily CFamily D
Wheat / Rice
Vegetable Oil
Sugar
Electricity / Lighting
Ghee
Clothes
House Rent

How to analyse it

  1. Relative poverty — add up each family's total monthly expenditure and compare them; the family with the lowest total (per person) is the relatively poor one. …

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