Primary poverty
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Primary poverty is a categorisation of poverty created by Seebohm Rowntree. Primary poverty relates to an area on Seebohm Rowntree's poverty line. To live in primary poverty is to live below this poverty line - according to his study in York 10% loved in primary poverty. Rowntree descirbes this group as "insufficent to obtain the minimum necesssaries for the maintainance of mere physical efficency". Above this line was secondary poverty - people able to obtain these basic necessities.
