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.
The table gives information about
poverty
rates among six types of
household
Fix the agreement mistake
households
show examples
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
Add a hyphen
single-aged
show examples
people
and aged couples respectively. Just over
one fifth
Add a hyphen
one-fifth
show examples
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 jannathsamia576 on

Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Writing9 with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.

Basic structure: Write more paragraphs.
Basic structure: Add more body paragraphs.
Basic structure: Write more paragraphs.
Vocabulary: Replace the words poverty, people with synonyms.
Topic Vocabulary:
  • proportion
  • categories
  • families
  • poverty
  • single-parent
  • childcare
  • income
  • couples
  • dependents
  • older adults
  • pensions
  • unemployed
  • financial resources
What to do next:
Look at other essays: