The table shows the proportion of different categories of families living in poverty in Australia in 1999.
In particular, we can see that there is no big difference between single aged persons and couples. In fact, the first one is 54,000, i.e., 6% of this category of families, and the second one is less, that is 4%.
A relevant difference is between single people and couples with no children. The single people without children are 359,000, that is 19% of this category of families, whereas the couples without children are only 211,000, which represent 7%.
Another important difference is between sole parents and couples with children. The first one represents 21%, approximately 232,000 families of this category, against the second one that are 933,000, around 12%.
If we consider all families, approximately 11% of them are living in poverty, in fact, there are 1,837,000 families of this category.
