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 given tabular chart presents some statistics regarding the percentage of various family types in Australia who were living below the poverty line in 1999.
Overall, it can be lucidly seen that having children caused a considerable amount of financial pressure, while older people seemed to be more stable financially.
A glance at the table reveals that families with children and people living alone experienced higher rates of poverty, while the elderly and couples without children were less prone to be poverty-stricken.
In 1999, the category with the highest ratio of poverty was that of single-parent families, which had a poverty rate of 21%. Single people with no children also had a high level of poverty at 19%, while about one-eighth of couples with children were living in destitution.
Probing further, merely 4% of elderly couples were living miserably, while the ratio of aged singles was slightly more at 6%. Finally, couples with no children were only about half as likely to be living in poverty than couples who had kids.
