Table 7. Disability status and in-work poverty rate In-work poverty rate Total No Disability 6.6% 86.9% Disability 9.5% 13.1% Seeing, Even When Wearing Glasses or Contact Lenses 8.4% 6.1% Hearing, Even When Using a Hearing Aid 7.9% 3.1% Walking, Lifting or Bending 8.3% 11.7% Using Your Hands to Hold, Grasp or Use Objects 8.5% 4.6% Learning, Concentrating or Remembering 10.1% 4.8% Communicating, Mixing with Others, or Socialising 10.1% 3.8% Disability Difficulties Source: IDI 2019. Notes: In-work poverty rate as defined in Section 3. 4.6 Household structure Table 8 presents the in-work poverty rate differentiated by household structure. 22 The lowest rate is observed for households composed of a couple without children (4.8 percent), followed by a couple with child(ren) (6.3 percent) and single adults (6.4 percent). Households which are comprised of two or more families or single-parent households have elevated rates of experiencing in-work poverty (at 9.6 percent and 12.3 percent, respectively). It is necessary to point out that while the in-work poverty rate is high for two or more family households, this type of household structure only accounts for 6.6 percent of all working households. In contrast, single-parent households make up one-tenth of all working households. A high in-work poverty rate for single parents (relative to other forms of household structure) is consistent with the experience in other countries (e.g., Nieuwenhuis & Maldonaldo, 2018). Intuitively, it is expected that the number of workers in a household will have some impact on the likelihood of experiencing in-work poverty for the household. Therefore, we further break down the in-work poverty prevalence for couples (with and without children) and two or more family households. The effect is substantial: while the in-work poverty rate for couples with children and only one adult working is 13.5 percent, this number drops to 1.9 percent when there is more than one adult working. Here, it is necessary to remember that working status is still defined as in Section 3, where the threshold is based on whether the adult is earning positive wages or salaries for at least seven months of the year. A similar result is evident when viewing the same sub-group analysis for couples without children (11.6 percent versus 1.2 percent, respectively). Finding a substantive impact on the likelihood of experiencing in-work poverty if a household has more than one adult working is also consistent with the international literature on the topic (Gutiérrez et al., 2011). One explanation for having only one worker in a household with children might be the presence of small children. This finds some support in the data: for single-parent households and two or more family households with children, we find that the in-work poverty rate is elevated when there is a child under the age of five compared with these household types that do not have a child under age For completion, we also included households with related and unrelated people (‘Other multi-person household’) but do not discuss their findings further. 22 Page 29