The table illustrates the percentage of people from each household type living in poverty based on family type in Australia in 1999.
Overall, the highest proportion was recorded by solo parent category. While, the lowest was for aged couple. In contrast, the highset number of person living in poverty resident was for couple with children.
In detail, most of the households residents were from couple with children type, as they recorde 12% ( 933,000) from the overall percentage. Followed by single, no children which was accounted for 19% (359,000) of the total number. After that solo parents comes in the third place, with 21% ( 232,000) of the total.
Couple, no children were taking 7% (211,000) of the total poverty population. 6% (54,000) of single aged person were living in the poverty houshold. 4% ( 48,000) of aged couple living in the poverty accommodation. Finally, all households percentage was 11% (1,837,000).
