thus the poorest groups have the greatest imbalance in terms of the distribution between the sexes of unpaid domestic work which is yet another factor that militates against these households ability to lift themselves out of poverty in the other groups the largest proportion are employees for the nonindigent poor for those at risk of poverty and for those not at risk this nevertheless indicates that being employed as a wage earner does not provide protection against the risk of poverty renters account for between and of the total and there is no clear correlation between these figures and poverty status the only kind of situation in which the type of tenure appears to correlate more directly with income levels is when ownership is unclear or undocumented since the percentage of people in this situation descends from in the lowestincome group to in the highestincome group