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Statistics of low income families in Australia

The table provides information about diverse type of families living in poverty in Australia in 1999.

On the average, the proportion of people from all households types living in poverty was 11%, which represented there had total 1,837,000 people were poor. And the sole parent family type had the largest proportion, 21% (232,000) people of this family type were living in poverty. The household type of single people with no children had the second largest poverty proportion, which was 19% (350,000 people). The family type of couple with children also had a large proportion of the poverty, 12% (933,000 people) of this family type were living in poverty.

In contrast, the other three family types, including couple with no children, single aged person and aged couple, had the proportion which were less than 10%. The poverty percentage of the couple with no children was 7%, which show 211,000 people of this household type were lived in poor condition.The percentage of the poverty in single aged person family type was only less 1% than the percentage of the couple with no children, which was 6%(54,000 people).

The percentage of the poverty in aged couple family type was least, only had 4%(48,000) people were living in poverty.

Overall, the sole parent family type had the largest proportion of people living in poverty, while the aged couple had the least proportion.