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

The graph depicts the ratio of various distinct types of families that live in poverty in Australia in 1999.

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, the table compares the six different households in terms of the distribution of people of each category living in poverty.

It is clear that

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the three groups representing the biggest portion of people living in poverty are the ones with the highest number of citizens out of all categories. The family type with the highest proportion of individuals living in precarity is sole parents, who make up 21 per cent so 232 000 people.

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, families consisting of one single person have the second largest percentage of individuals in precarity , but add up to 359,000.

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, couples with children are third in the list with 19% of them in bankruptcy , but exceed any other category in number, with 933,000 poor households. Of the three smaller portions, 7% of couples with no children are poor, so approximately 211,000 groups, which is way more than bankrupt single aged persons, who sum up to 54,000, which is about 6%. Finishing with the smallest figures for bankrupt persons, single elders only are for 4% of the cases, poor, which means 48,000 inhabitants.