The types of households analysed are female and male lone-parent households on the one hand, and female and male one-person households on the other. In 16 of the 20 countries with available data in the region, the poverty rates for households of lone mothers with children are higher than they are for households of lone fathers with children by more than 5 percentage points. In the remaining four countries - El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama — the poverty rates for the two types of households are similar.