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| Units | Years | NSW | Vic. | Qld | SA | WA | Tas. | NT | ACT | Aust. |
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Total families | '000 | 1995 | 1,634 | 1,202 | 868 | 395 | 455 | 127 | 34 | 76 | 4,791 |
Persons who live alone (of persons aged 15 and over) | % | 1995 | 9.7 | 10.0 | 9.6 | 12.3 | 9.8 | 11.0 | 7.4 | 8.6 | 10.0 |
Average family size (persons) | no. | 1995 | 3.2 | 3.1 | 3.1 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 3.1 | 3.1 | 3.2 | 3.1 |
Couple families with dependants (of all families) | % | 1995 | 41.7 | 42.2 | 40.1 | 38.3 | 42.3 | 41.7 | 40.0 | 46.7 | 41.4 |
One parent families with a male parent with dependants (of all families) | % | 1995 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.1 | * * | * * | 1.2 |
One parent families with a female parent with dependants (of all families) | % | 1995 | 8.4 | 8.0 | 9.0 | 8.7 | 8.3 | 8.8 | 11.5 | 11.1 | 8.5 |
Couple only families (of all families) | % | 1995 | 32.1 | 32.4 | 35.8 | 36.5 | 35.4 | 35.3 | 34.0 | 28.2 | 33.6 |
De facto couples (of all couples) | % | 1991 | 7.9 | 6.7 | 9.7 | 7.9 | 9.6 | 8.3 | 18.5 | 9.2 | 8.2 |
Couples with dependants, both employed (of all couples with dependants) | % | 1995 | 57.8 | 57.2 | 56.7 | 56.8 | 58.8 | 53.5 | 69.7 | 68.6 | 57.7 |
One parent families with dependants, parent employed (of all one parent families with dependants) | % | 1995 | 41.3 | 51.4 | 50.7 | 45.5 | 46.8 | 43.0 | 51.0 | 57.9 | 46.9 |
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| Units | Years | NSW | Vic. | Qld | SA | WA | Tas. | NT | ACT | Aust. |
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Crude marriage rate | no. | 1994 | 6.4 | 6.0 | 6.5 | 6.1 | 6.1 | 6.1 | 4.5 | 5.5 | 6.2 |
Median age of men at first marriage | years | 1994 | 27.3 | 27.3 | 26.8 | 27.0 | 27.4 | 26.5 | 28.2 | 27.2 | 27.2 |
Median age of women at first marriage | years | 1994 | 25.1 | 25.4 | 24.8 | 24.9 | 25.2 | 24.5 | 25.6 | 25.2 | 25.1 |
Marriages where both partners married for the first time (of all marriages) | % | 1994 | 68.1 | 70.7 | 65.3 | 65.1 | 64.8 | 63.7 | 58.6 | 68.6 | 67.5 |
Crude divorce rate | no. | 1994 | 2.6 | 2.5 | 2.6 | 2.8 | 2.9 | 3.2 | 2.1 | 3.1 | 2.7 |
Median duration of marriage to separation | years | 1994 | 7.2 | 7.8 | 8.1 | 8.3 | 8.1 | 8.8 | 7.4 | 7.2 | 7.7 |
Divorces involving children (of all divorces) | % | 1994 | 50.0 | nya | 56.6 | 47.6 | 50.3 | 61.3 | 56.7 | 56.3 | nya |
Total fertility rate (per woman) | no. | 1994 | 1.88 | 1.79 | 1.86 | 1.74 | 1.88 | 1.96 | 2.34 | 1.72 | 1.85 |
Median age of mothers at first birth within registered marriage | years | 1994 | 28.4 | 28.7 | 28.2 | 28.8 | 28.3 | 28.0 | 28.2 | 28.7 | 28.5 |
Births to mothers aged under 20 (of all births) | % | 1994 | 4.8 | 3.4 | 6.5 | 4.0 | 6.1 | 6.6 | 13.6 | 3.8 | 5.0 |
Births to mothers aged over 35 (of all births) | % | 1994 | 13.3 | 14.0 | 11.3 | 13.5 | 11.9 | 9.8 | 9.6 | 13.6 | 12.9 |
Births outside marriage (of all births) | % | 1994 | 24.5 | 20.5 | 29.7 | 26.5 | 28.7 | 31.0 | 56.3 | 23.4 | 25.6 |
Births outside marriage acknowledged by father (of all births outside marriage) | % | 1994 | 82.5 | 84.1 | 81.1 | 84.1 | 82.4 | 85.3 | 65.9 | 82.1 | 82.2 |
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