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A Wife Pension may be paid to the female partner of an age or disability support pensioner who is not receiving any other income support payment in her own right. New grants of Wife Pension ceased after 30 June 1995.
Some 72.7% of wife pensioners are partners of disability support pensioners, while 27.3% are partners of age pensioners (source: Statistics - Tasmania as at 7/1/2003). Wife Pensioners are most likely to be found in Tasman local government area, with 12.4 recipients per 1,000 persons.
RECIPIENTS OF WIFE PENSION, Tasmanian local government areas(a)(b) - 1 June 2001 |
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 | | Recipients | Estimated resident population -
as at 30 June 2001(c) |
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Local government area |
no.
|
crude rate(d)
(per 1,000 persons)
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no.
|
median age
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| Greater Hobart-Southern | | | | |
| Brighton | 120 | 9.3 | 12,915 | 29 |
| Central Highlands | 25 | 10.6 | 2,316 | 39 |
| Clarence | 228 | 4.6 | 49,594 | 38 |
| Derwent Valley | 84 | 9.0 | 9,373 | 36 |
| Glamorgan/Spring Bay | 38 | 9.6 | 3,989 | 45 |
| Glenorchy | 228 | 5.2 | 44,003 | 37 |
| Hobart | 71 | 1.5 | 47,446 | 36 |
| Huon Valley | 132 | 9.6 | 13,846 | 36 |
| Kingborough | 99 | 3.4 | 29,379 | 37 |
| Sorell | 83 | 7.5 | 11,004 | 36 |
| Southern Midlands | 62 | 10.7 | 5,730 | 36 |
| Tasman | 28 | 12.4 | 2,259 | 42 |
| Total | 1,199 | 5.2 | 231,854 | 37 |
Northern | | | | |
| Break O'Day | 65 | 11.3 | 5,781 | 43 |
| Dorset | 62 | 8.5 | 7,339 | 37 |
| Flinders | - | - | 887 | 43 |
| George Town | 75 | 11.6 | 6,491 | 36 |
| Launceston | 274 | 4.4 | 62,335 | 36 |
| Meander Valley | 91 | 5.0 | 18,066 | 36 |
| Northern Midlands | 55 | 4.6 | 11,926 | 37 |
| West Tamar | 117 | 5.7 | 20,290 | 38 |
| Total | 739 | 5.6 | 133,115 | 37 |
Mersey-Lyell | | | | |
| Burnie | 157 | 8.3 | 18,886 | 36 |
| Central Coast | 175 | 8.3 | 21,029 | 38 |
| Circular Head | 29 | 3.6 | 8,047 | 34 |
| Devonport | 209 | 8.6 | 24,257 | 38 |
| Kentish | 41 | 7.5 | 5,499 | 36 |
| King Island | - | - | 1,724 | 38 |
| Latrobe | 62 | 7.6 | 8,241 | 38 |
| Waratah/Wynyard | 132 | 9.7 | 13,627 | 37 |
| West Coast | 46 | 8.4 | 5,516 | 33 |
| Total | 851 | 8.0 | 106,826 | 37 |
Tasmania |
2,789
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5.9
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471,795
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37
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- nil or rounded to zero
(a) Data have been aggregated to local government areas from postcode data supplied by Centrelink. Consequently, some figures have been rounded.
(b) Small area data in this table has been confidentialised. Totals for Tasmania may differ to those published in Statistics - Tasmania.
(c) Source: ABS data available on request, Population by Age and Sex.
(d) This is a crude rate only. It has not been adjusted to take into account the population eligible to receive payment. Therefore, care should be taken when interpreting figures.
Source: Centrelink. |
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