1384.6 - Statistics - Tasmania, 2004
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 22/04/2004
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Feature Article - Family life
Couple only families comprised 54.3% of all couple families while defacto couple families (including same-sex couples) comprised 11.1% of all couple families. Of all families with children under 15 in Tasmania in 1998 77% were couple families with children under 15, 20.6% were lone mother families with children under 15 and 2.4% were lone father families with children under 15. Of all families with children under 15, 43.4% were families with at least one child aged under 5. The average family size in Tasmania in 1998 was 3 persons, compared with 3.1 persons nationally. Of all couple families with children under 15, 51.9% had both parents employed, and 12.1% had neither parent employed. Of all one parent families with children under 15, 48.5% had a parent employed.
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