Depicted in the table is the percentage of 6 categories of family living in poverty in Australia in 1999.
Overall, it can be seen that of all the 6 family types, sole parent had the highest percentage of people living in poverty. Another interesting point to highlight from the data is that apparently, there was no correlation between the number of people in the family with the percentage of people from each household type living in poverty.
As previously mentioned, the highest percentage was dominated by sole parent family type with 21% or 232,000 out of 1,837,000 people living in poverty. Coming in second was the single, with no children which made up 19% (359,000 people). The third family type was couple with children which constituted 12% (933,000) of the total proportion. The other family types such as couple with no children, single aged person, and aged couple only made below 8% with aged couple having the lowest poverty percentage of all family types (4% or 54,000 people).
