poverty among those with three years or fewer of education is higher than the average for the general population while it is and higher among those with four to six years and seven to nine years of education respectively as for employment type poverty rates are higher among the unemployed higher among inactive persons and higher among selfemployed workers than in the total population poverty rates among wage workers are on average below those of the general population further evidence of the crucial role of employment in staving off poverty and indigence although poverty fell between and some of the population continue to suffer from simultaneous deprivations in different dimensions of wellbeing