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

The table illustrates the poverty
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percentage
percentages
measured in 6 different categories of families in Australia back in 1999.
Firstly
, it is obvious that single families with no children and sole partners
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have the biggest amount of poor houses in terms of percentage with 19 and 21 per cent respectively.
In contrast
, couples with children come in second place after these 2 factors by 12%.
On the other hand
, other
categotries
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categories
are less poor compared to the ones mentioned. In detail,
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couple section seems to be the least affected factor by poverty with only 4%.
Moreover
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people have a slightly higher proportion of 6%,
while
there is only a 1% gap between
this
figure and couples that have no children, who are at 7%.
To sum up
, all the factors to gather formed all households section, which was around 2 million in terms of population and accounted for 11% of poverty back in the day.
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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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