Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons wherever relevant. Write at least 150 words.

The given chart displays the percentages of population and households living under the poverty line in six Australian family types in 1999. Overall, the sole parents are the most significant proportion of the poverty family rate, while the greatest number of the poor population comprises

couples

with

children

. It is clear from the table that sole parents and singles without

children

make up the

first

and the

second

position in case of indigent family proportions at 21% and 19% respectively, with the total being 232.000 people and 359.000 people.

Couples

with

children

,

couples

without

children

, and single-aged persons occupy the following three positions of impoverished family rate. When

this

falls between 6% and 12%, with

couples

with

children

at the top and single-aged persons at the bottom, the total penniless population in the former family stands out in the comparison.

This

is recorded as high as 933.000. In the

last

position stand aged

couples

, contributing 4% to the total impoverished household rate.

Moreover

, these

couples

also

have the lowest number of impoverished household members, reaching just below 50.000 out of 1.837.000.