4102.0 - Australian Social Trends, 2006

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National and State Summary Tables

ECONOMIC RESOURCES: NATIONAL SUMMARY


INCOME GROWTH

		Units	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005

1	Real net national disposable income per capita(a)	$'000	r26.1	r27.1	r28.1	r29.1	r29.9	r31.1	r31.5	r32.3	r32.9	r34.3	35.1
3	Real GDP per capita(a)	$'000	r33.2	r34.2	r35.1	r36.3	r37.7	r38.8	r39.0	r40.0	r40.8	r41.9	42.4
	Weekly earnings
4	Average weekly total earnings – all employees	$	551	574	n.a.	610	n.a.	653	n.a.	698	n.a.	757	n.a.
5	Average weekly ordinary time earnings of full-time adult non-managerial employees	$	608	634	n.a.	692	n.a.	737	n.a.	800	n.a.	868	n.a.
6	Total hourly rates of pay excluding bonuses(b)	index no.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	82.2	84.8	87.3	90.3	93.3	96.5	100.0	103.8
7	Full weekly benefit received by a single age pensioner	$	189	197	199	202	203	203	207	211	220	232	238
8	Full weekly benefit received by a couple with two children	$	355	370	386	393	397	405	445	465	482	496	531
9	Consumer price index(c)	index no.	113.9	118.7	120.3	120.3	121.8	124.7	132.2	136.0	140.2	143.5	147.0

INCOME DISTRIBUTION

		Units	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005

10	Female/male ratio of mean weekly ordinary time earnings of full-time adult non-managerial employees	ratio	0.91	0.89	n.a.	0.89	n.a.	0.90	n.a.	0.89	n.a.	0.90	n.a.
	Disposable household income
	Mean weekly income of selected households(d)
11	Lone person aged under 35 years	$	480	r488	r524	r498	n.a.	r555	r552	n.a.	r539	567	n.a.
12	Couple only, reference person aged under 35	$	1 017	r1 006	r1 039	r1 049	n.a.	r1 192	r1 122	n.a.	r1 175	1 231	n.a.
13	Couple with dependent children	$	1 020	r1 003	r1 023	r1 076	n.a.	r1 123	r1 153	n.a.	r1 140	1 257	n.a.
14	One parent with dependent children	$	535	r556	r568	r585	n.a.	r629	r623	n.a.	r618	669	n.a.
15	Couple only, reference person aged 65 and over	$	470	r467	r526	r499	n.a.	r545	r523	n.a.	r555	597	n.a.
16	Lone person aged 65 and over	$	253	r265	r279	r282	n.a.	r318	r297	n.a.	r311	350	n.a.
17	All households	$	787	779	801	820	n.a.	872	859	n.a.	871	914	n.a.
	Mean weekly equivalised household income for selected groups of persons(d)
18	Low income	$	r246	r246	r255	r258	n.a.	r262	r267	n.a.	r276	300	n.a.
19	Middle income	$	r404	r399	r413	r421	n.a.	r439	r449	n.a.	r460	492	n.a.
20	High income	$	r861	r838	r862	r903	n.a.	r954	r981	n.a.	r999	1 027	n.a.
21	All households	$	455	450	464	477	n.a.	497	510	n.a.	522	549	n.a.
	Weekly equivalised household income of persons at top of selected income percentiles(d)
22	20th(P20)	$	r245	r243	r253	r255	n.a.	r261	r266	n.a.	r273	299	n.a.
23	50th(P50)	$	r403	r397	r412	r418	n.a.	r439	r449	n.a.	r459	491	n.a.
24	80th(P80)	$	r625	r627	r642	r654	n.a.	r690	r699	n.a.	r719	743	n.a.
	Ratio of equivalised household incomes of persons at top of selected income percentiles
25	P90/P10	ratio	3.77	3.73	3.66	3.77	n.a.	3.89	3.98	n.a.	4.00	3.70	n.a.
26	P80/P20	ratio	2.56	r2.58	2.53	2.56	n.a.	2.64	2.63	n.a.	2.63	2.49	n.a.
27	P80/P50	ratio	1.55	r1.58	1.56	1.56	n.a.	1.57	1.56	n.a.	1.57	1.52	n.a.
28	P20/P50	ratio	0.61	0.61	0.62	0.61	n.a.	0.59	0.59	n.a.	0.60	0.61	n.a.
	Share of total equivalised income received by persons with:
29	Low income	%	10.8	11.0	11.0	10.8	n.a.	10.5	10.5	n.a.	10.6	10.9	n.a.
30	High income	%	37.8	37.3	37.1	37.9	n.a.	38.4	38.5	n.a.	38.3	37.4	n.a.
31	Gini coefficient of equivalised income	ratio	0.302	0.296	0.292	0.303	n.a.	0.310	0.311	n.a.	0.309	0.294	n.a.

EXPENDITURE

		Units	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005

32	Real household final consumption expenditure per capita(a)	$'000	r19.4	r19.8	r20.1	r20.8	r21.6	r22.2	r22.7	r23.1	r23.7	r24.7	25.4

SOURCES OF INCOME

		Units	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005

	Main source of income – of all households
33	Wages and salaries	%	57.6	r56.8	56.3	56.8	n.a.	56.7	56.9	n.a.	58.0	57.5	n.a.
34	Own business or partnership	%	6.1	7.3	6.6	6.0	n.a.	6.4	6.4	n.a.	6.2	6.0	n.a.
35	Government pensions and allowances	%	r28.5	r28.0	r28.6	r28.5	n.a.	28.7	28.3	n.a.	26.6	27.7	n.a.
36	Other	%	6.7	7.0	7.6	7.7	n.a.	7.3	7.3	n.a.	8.1	8.2	n.a.
	Income Support
37	Social assistance benefits in cash to residents as a proportion of GDP	%	r8.4	r8.4	r8.4	r8.1	r8.0	r8.1	r8.7	r8.5	r8.2	r8.6	8.4
	Main source of income is government pensions and allowances – proportion of all households in selected groups
38	Lone person aged under 35 years	%	13.7	14.6	15.6	16.3	n.a.	17.2	13.7	n.a.	10.3	12.9	n.a.
39	Couple only, reference person aged under 35	%	3.6	*1.6	*2.6	*3.6	n.a.	*2.6	*2.8	n.a.	3.4	*2.0	n.a.
40	Couple with dependent children	%	10.4	9.7	10.6	10.3	n.a.	10.7	9.1	n.a.	8.7	7.7	n.a.
41	One parent with dependent children	%	58.1	53.3	58.7	54.3	n.a.	53.1	53.0	n.a.	48.9	54.2	n.a.
42	Couple only, reference person aged 65 and over	%	69.3	71.2	65.2	65.9	n.a.	70.1	71.7	n.a.	66.4	66.9	n.a.
43	Lone person aged 65 and over	%	83.4	79.8	80.0	77.9	n.a.	79.8	79.2	n.a.	79.9	76.5	n.a.
	Recipients of selected government payments
44	Labour market program allowance(e)	'000	r773.7	r812.4	r798.0	r837.6	r778.7	r697.8	r666.9	r635.9	r599.8	r567.8	533.2
45	Single-parent payment	'000	324.9	342.3	358.9	372.3	r382.3	r391.4	r416.7	r427.8	r437.0	r449.3	450.8
46	Disability support pension(f)	'000	464.4	499.2	527.5	r553.3	r577.7	r602.3	623.9	658.9	673.3	696.7	706.8
47	Age pension	'000	1 579	1 603	1 680	1 683	1 716	1 730	1 786	1 811	1 854	1 870	1 915
48	Age pensioners – of persons of qualifying age	%	63.0	62.7	64.4	65.4	65.5	65.9	65.8	66.2	66.3	67.4	66.3
49	Females – of all age pensioners	%	65.5	64.4	64.4	63.5	63.1	62.1	61.6	59.6	59.4	59.5	59.1

(a) Chain volume measure, reference year 2003–04. (b) Base of index: 2003–04 = 100.0. (c) Base of index: 1989–90 = 100.0. (d) Adjusted for changes in the Consumer Price Index; values are given in 2003–04 dollars. (e) From 2001 excludes Newstart customers who received a nil rate of payment. (f) Includes payments to people living overseas. Reference periods: All data are for the financial year ending 30 June except: Data for indicators 4–5 and 10 are at May. Data for indicators 7–8 and 44–49 are at June.

ECONOMIC RESOURCES: STATE SUMMARY


INCOME GROWTH

		Units	Years	NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.	NT	ACT	Aust.

2	Gross household disposable income per capita	$'000	2004–05	28.6	28.5	24.5	25.5	27.0	23.0	26.7	43.1	27.5
	Weekly earnings
4	Average weekly total earnings – all employees	$	2004	802	759	709	679	757	618	759	856	757
5	Average weekly ordinary time earnings of full-time adult non-managerial employees	$	2004	904	865	819	812	893	797	864	900	868
6	Total hourly rates of pay excluding bonuses(a)	index no.	2005	103.6	103.9	103.8	103.5	104.3	104.1	103.7	104.3	103.8

	INCOME DISTRIBUTION	Units	Years	NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.	NT	ACT	Aust.

10	Female/male ratio of mean weekly ordinary time earnings of full-time adult non-managerial employees	ratio	2004	0.91	0.88	0.89	0.92	0.85	0.92	0.95	0.93	0.90
	Disposable household income
	Mean weekly income of selected households
11	Lone person aged under 35 years	$	2003–04	595	550	531	509	606	405	808	642	567
12	Couple only, reference person aged under 35	$	2003–04	1 306	1 266	1 113	1 173	1 249	994	1 380	1 228	1 231
13	Couple with dependent children	$	2003–04	1 308	1 279	1 162	1 220	1 231	1 087	1 269	1 489	1 257
14	One parent with dependent children	$	2003–04	685	700	634	628	639	620	665	833	669
15	Couple only, reference person aged 65 and over	$	2003–04	648	574	545	573	591	534	*998	696	597
16	Lone person aged 65 and over	$	2003–04	336	330	416	312	344	307	305	362	350
17	All households	$	2003–04	971	919	851	846	895	757	1 102	1 086	914
	Mean weekly equivalised household income for selected groups of persons
18	Low income	$	2003–04	298	302	295	301	303	279	366	386	300
19	Middle income	$	2003–04	510	491	471	463	484	425	599	630	492
20	High income	$	2003–04	1 091	1 018	945	997	993	842	1 159	1 175	1 027
21	All households	$	2003–04	571	548	519	529	539	476	643	669	549
	Weekly equivalised household income of persons at top of selected income percentiles
22	20th(P20)	$	2003–04	295	301	295	301	303	280	354	393	299
23	50th(P50)	$	2003–04	514	488	472	461	483	420	591	628	491
24	80th(P80)	$	2003–04	777	747	689	691	727	637	861	899	743
	Ratio of equivalised household incomes of persons at top of selected income percentiles
25	P90/P10	ratio	2003–04	3.93	3.79	3.49	3.50	3.54	3.38	4.09	3.94	3.70
26	P80/P20	ratio	2003–04	2.63	2.48	2.34	2.29	2.40	2.28	2.43	2.29	2.49
27	P80/P50	ratio	2003–04	1.51	1.53	1.46	1.50	1.51	1.52	1.46	1.43	1.52
28	P20/P50	ratio	2003–04	0.58	0.62	0.62	0.65	0.63	0.67	0.60	0.63	0.61
	Share of total equivalised household income received by persons with:
29	Low income	%	2003–04	10.4	11.0	11.4	11.3	11.3	11.7	11.3	11.5	10.9
30	High income	%	2003–04	38.2	37.1	36.3	37.7	36.8	35.6	36.0	35.0	37.4
31	Gini coefficient of equivalised income	ratio	2003–04	0.307	0.291	0.278	0.286	0.285	0.266	0.286	0.268	0.294

SOURCES OF INCOME

		Units	Years	NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.	NT	ACT	Aust.

	Main source of income – of all households
33	Wages and salaries	%	2003–04	58.4	58.4	56.1	53.6	57.2	52.1	73.8	67.7	57.5
34	Own business or partnership	%	2003–04	5.4	5.2	6.6	6.6	8.1	5.0	5.6	4.5	6.0
35	Government pensions and allowances	%	2003–04	26.6	27.2	29.7	31.2	26.8	36.6	16.3	16.7	27.7
36	Other	%	2003–04	9.2	8.8	6.6	8.2	7.0	5.9	*3.8	11.1	8.2
	Income Support
	Recipients of selected government payments
44	Labour market program allowance	'000	2005	173.3	127.4	105.6	45.0	45.2	18.8	12.6	5.2	533.2
45	Single-parent payment(b)	'000	2005	145.4	100.3	98.6	36.0	45.4	13.4	5.9	5.1	450.8
46	Disability support pension(c)	'000	2005	227.6	168.9	135.9	67.6	59.7	25.1	5.9	7.0	706.8
47	Age pension(c)	'000	2005	624	486	336	177	164	53	6	18	1915
48	Age pensioners – of persons of qualifying age	%	2005	62.4	66.4	64.2	70.1	63.5	69.9	59.0	51.3	66.3
49	Females – of all age pensioners	%	2005	59.8	59.9	58.6	59.9	59.5	59.2	54.8	62.3	59.1

(a) Base of index: 2003–04 = 100.0. (b) Components do not add to Australian total because total for Australia includes payments where valid geographic data were not available. (c) Components do not add to Australian total because total for Australia includes payments to people living overseas and where valid geographic data were not available. Reference periods: All data are for the financial year ending 30 June except: Data for indicators 4–5 and 10 are at May. Data for indicators 44–49 are at June.