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The table below shows the proportion of different categories of families living in poverty in Australia in 1999.

The table below shows the proportion of different categories of families living in poverty in Australia in 1999.
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The table gives information about
poverty
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 rates among six types of households in Australia in the year 1999. It is noticeable that levels of
poverty
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 were higher for single
people
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 than for couples, and
people
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 with children were more likely to be poor than those without.
Poverty
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 rates were considerably lower among elderly
people
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.
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, 11% of Australians, or 1,837,000
people
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, were living in
poverty
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 in 1999. Aged
people
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 were the least likely to be poor, with
poverty
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 levels of 6% and 4% for single-aged
people
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 and aged couples respectively. Just over one-fifth of single parents were living in /
poverty
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,
whereas
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 only 12% of parents living with a partner were classed as poor. The same pattern can be seen for
people
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 with no children:
while
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 19% of single
people
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 in
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 group were living below the
poverty
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 line, the figure for couples was much lower, at only 7%.

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Vocabulary: Replace the words poverty, people with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the third paragraph.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • proportion
  • categories
  • families
  • poverty
  • single-parent
  • childcare
  • income
  • couples
  • dependents
  • older adults
  • pensions
  • unemployed
  • financial resources
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