low-income household
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household
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk/ˈhaʊs.həʊld/us/ˈhaʊs.hoʊld/
a group of people, often a family, who ...
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(Definition ofhouseholdfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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For example, if a case subject is female, 45 years old, white, and from alow-incomehousehold, a control subject would be selected with basically the same characteristics.
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For a typicallow-incomehousehold, that is worth £13 a week more than it received under the previous regime.
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I assume that by definition a middle-income household makes more demand on the services of its fellow-citizens than does alow-incomehousehold.
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The burden on an individuallow-incomehouseholdmay be such as to have an adverse effect on the family's health because they cannot afford to heat the home properly.
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Imagine the delight of alow-incomehouseholdwhen, in periods of great sunshine, its solar panels export to the grid electricity surplus to its individual requirements.
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In 2012, 9.0% of the 349 students lived in alow-incomehousehold.
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Another lesson, however, is that the currently available household energy technologies tend to be too costly for many low-income households.
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The evidence is less compelling for the other target group, low-income households.
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Although normally non-decisions do not attract a lot of popular attention, not compensating low-income households for dramatic rent increases would probably have done just that.
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Between 1991 and 1995, rentals increased by 51 per cent for low-income households, largely as a result of the big tax-reform in 1989/90.
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As expected, the marginal effect of income on the probability of using wood is much greater for low-income households.
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This means that husbands with young wives or with high pension returns are subsidized by others, including single and low-income households.
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He combined this with the observation that low-income households are large recipients of indexed transfers to argue that the sales taxes was progressive.
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To make membership accessible, members can pay in installments; low-income households can receive subsidized shares; and can exchange their labor for membership (worker-shares).
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Housing benefit is contributory and geared towards owner occupation, which is beyond the reach of low-income households.
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Links involving neighborhood variables varied by gender, wherein boys reflected greater deterioration than girls when neighborhoods had high crime rates and high proportions of low-income households.
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