The table below shows the proportion of different categories of families living in poverty in Australia in 1999. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The chart depicts the indigence percentage of different groups of people living in Australia in 1999. It is estimated that the average poverty rate is nearly eleven per

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, with roughly two million people involved. From the table, it can be seen that sole parents are at a greater disadvantage than the other categories. They contain one-fifth of the whole table, which is nearly twenty per

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.

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, aged couples do not seem to be impacted by poverty that much, and only about fifty thousand out of two million are a part of

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type. Unmarried individuals with no offspring are facing more hardships compared to the married ones of the same group. The difference is about twelve per

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and contains more than a hundred and fifty residents.

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, couples who have children are suffering from destitution as they comprise twelve per

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of the total proportion.

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, elders who are single do not contain that much of the package, and only contain six per

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of it.