Use in a study of poverty in Poland of various, complementary to one another methods of measurement has allowed for its comprehensive analysis. Presentations of the results of author's studies in „Handel Wewnętrzny" are begun from assessment of the scope, depth and severity of poverty in Poland in separated socioeconomic and demographic profiles of households, and an analysis of developments occurring in the sphere of poverty in the period of 1990-2003. This article concerns a study on impact of the sociodemographic factors on the fact of being poor, with use of the logit analysis.