Topics: Economics and Personal Finances, Socioeconomic Class. 1  Richard Fry is a senior researcher focusing on economics and education at Pew Research Center. 2  Rakesh Kochhar is an associate director of research at Pew Research Center.
In the United States, the Census Bureau determines who is poor using an economic poverty measure, by calculating official poverty estimates using a set of dollar-value thresholds, or minimum amount of income needed to meet basic needs, that vary by family size and composition.
In poorly performing students there was a significant increase in poor attendance (p< 0.001), poor organisational skills ( p< 0.001), and failure in earlier 3rd year assessments ( p < 0.001) as compared to medical students who passed their 3rd year final exams.