The given table gives information about Autralian households who live in poverty in the year 1999.
Overall, it can be clearly seen that the proportion of sole parent was by far the highest among all the families, while aged couple had the lowest proportions. In constrat, the 11% of individuals in Australia live in famine.
In detail, single human-beings with and without children make up almost one fifth of the total amount of people. Whilst, elderly people with and without partner accounted for approximately 5% in the year 1999.
It is interesting to note that the number of people partnerships without kids composed to 7% (211,000), which was as half as much couples with kids which was accounted for 12% (933,000) of the total, respectively.
