The phrase "average poverty rate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing statistical measures related to the level of poverty within a specific population or area.
Example: "The average poverty rate in the region has decreased over the past five years, indicating an improvement in economic conditions."
Alternatives: "mean poverty rate" or "typical poverty rate".
To qualify, each community must demonstrate (pdf) an average poverty rate of 20%, with at least one tract of 30% poverty.
In contrast, the poverty rate declined steeply among Hispanic New Yorkers, who began the boom years of the mid-90's as the poorest group, and by 2000 had the same average poverty rate as non-Hispanic blacks.
The average poverty rate in counties that have reservations fell to 14.2percentt in 1995 from 16.7percentt in 1989; the median household income increased by 30percentto to $31,153 from $23,937.
An important implication of this is that more stringent location constraints designed with the goal of exposing the target population to lower neighborhood poverty rates could end up reducing the take-up of the program and the average poverty rate to which the treated group is exposed to (due to less take-up).
Hmmmmmm.....Well, for starters, their average poverty rate is 9.4%.
A decade ago, the average poverty rate was under 25percentt.
The all-party report says the government should stop trying to "engineer" a so-called moderate form of Islam and pay more attention to other factors leading to violent extremism, including foreign policy, the higher than average poverty rates faced by Muslims and alienation.
Unlike the segregation curve, the generalized segregation curve also takes average poverty rates into account while ranking distributions.
Since the young typically have higher than average poverty rates, this by itself will tend to pull down rural poverty rates.
The study examined average poverty rates across the community, so not all households near a park may have become better off.
Over-all Chinese-American prosperity obscures the higher-than-average poverty rate for Chinese-Americans.
