The table data presents information about the types of Australian families who were poverty-stricken in 1999. It also shows the number and proportion of such impoverished families for the same year.
Overall, more than 1.83 million Australian families were poor in 1999 and it comprised just over one-tenth of the total Australian households. Furthermore, poverty was more prevalent among solo parents and singles without any children.
As the data suggest, one out of five sole parents in Australia was destitute and it was the highest percentage of poverty among the given family types in 1999. The higher number of poor families, however, were the couples with children accounting for approximately one million households. 7% of couples without children, on the other hand, were not affluent. 19% of Single Australians without any child were needy while this rate among the elder citizens was lower – 6% single ages person and 4% of the aged couples were poor and the total number of such families was 54,000 and 48,000 respectively.