The table below shows the proportion of different categories of families living in poverty in Australia in 1999.
The chart below illustrates the percentage of various items of people who live in Australia living in
poverty
in the year 1999.
It is clear that
single no children
and sole parents saw the highest proportion of living in poverty
while
aged couples
and single aged person were the lowest percentage of society who lived in poverty
.
In detail, the whole proportion of people who were poor was about 11 per cent ( 1837000 million). The figure for the single aged person who living in poverty
stood at approximately a fifth. However
, these figures for single without children
and sole parents were higher at 19% and 21% respectively. In addition
, couples
with children
accounted for the third highest proportion of living in poverty
about more than one in ten.
The figure for the aged couples
who had poor life, stood at less than a fifth, whereas
that of couples
with no children
was higher at 7 per cent.Submitted by www.marzieh.eidi on
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