The table below shows the proportion of different categories of families living in poverty in Australia in 1999.
The table gives information about
poverty
rates among six types of households in Australia in the year 1999.
It is noticeable that levels of poverty
were higher for single people
than for couples, and people
with children were more likely to be poor than those without. Poverty
rates were considerably lower among elderly people
.
Overall
, 11% of Australians, or 1,837,000 people
, were living in poverty
in 1999. Aged people
were the least likely to be poor, with poverty
levels of 6% and 4% for single-aged people
and aged couples respectively.
Just over one-fifth of single parents were living in /poverty
, whereas
only 12% of parents living with a partner were classed as poor. The same pattern can be seen for people
with no children: while
19% of single people
in this
group were living below the poverty
line, the figure for couples was much lower, at only 7%.Submitted by chautran13012006 on
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