Band 6+: The table below shows the proportion of different categories of families living in poverty in Australia in 1999. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The chart provides information about the percentages and the number of households who lived in poverty in 1999 in Australia.

Broadly, it can be seen that couples with children and single with no children households more likely to live in poverty than other types of families. Meanwhile, old single individuals and aged couples that lived in poverty are marginally less than others.

To begin with households, 11% of all families, consisting of 1,837,000 lived destitute. Furthermore, single individuals with no children are almost double this proportion of poor people, with 19% approximately the same as sole parents, with 21%, which are consisting of 359,000 and 232,000 respectively. In addition, couples without children (7%) are less than couples with children (12%).

Older people were generally less likely poor than other families. Single-aged people and aged couples occupied 6% and 4% respectively of all families who lived in poverty in 1999.