4102.0 - Australian Social Trends, 2003

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State summary tables

INCOME GROWTH

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

1	Gross household disposable income per capita		$'000	2001-2002	25.5	25.1	21.5	22.0	23.9	19.5	25.6	34.3	24.2
	Weekly earnings
2		Average weekly total earnings - all employees	$	2002	736	704	643	669	679	594	700	777	698
3		Average weekly ordinary time earnings of full-time adult non-managerial employees	$	2002	827	804	756	777	792	759	803	864	800
4	Total hourly rates of pay excluding bonuses		index no.	2002	115.6	114.7	114.2	114.1	114.5	112.6	113.2	113.5	114.8

INCOME DISTRIBUTION

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

5	Female/male ratio of mean weekly ordinary time earnings of full-time adult non-managerial employees		ratio	2002	0.89	0.91	0.88	0.91	0.86	1.00	0.88	0.89	0.89
	Household disposable income
	Mean weekly income of selected households
6		Lone person aged under 35	$	1997-1998	431.2	411.3	430.0	424.2	355.2	295.7	*492.5	*506.0	413.7
7		Couple only, reference person aged under 35	$	1997-1998	910.0	908.2	798.8	807.9	885.9	742.3	*1,016.4	*1,003.5	875.0
8		Couple with dependent children only	$	1997-1998	833.1	840.4	863.5	728.2	820.5	713.8	1,037.4	969.8	833.8
9		One parent with dependent children only	$	1997-1998	422.7	449.2	425.9	412.4	460.6	390.8	612.3	468.0	434.5
10		Couple only, reference person aged 65 and over	$	1997-1998	432.8	420.6	416.5	353.6	438.1	406.0	**277.3	*683.4	421.9
11		Lone person aged 65 and over	$	1997-1998	237.4	223.8	247.5	224.8	248.7	224.7	253.2	297.1	236.1
	Mean weekly equivalised income for selected groups of households
12		Low income	$	1997-1998	425	445	426	398	433	405	479	509	427
13		Middle income	$	1997-1998	733	734	709	629	730	604	887	932	720
14		High income	$	1997-1998	1,740	1,590	1,604	1,373	1,729	1,404	1,666	1,783	1,642
	Weekly equivalised income of households at top of selected income percentile
15		20th(P20)	$	1997-1998	421	439	420	398	422	408	491	519	420
16		50th(P50)	$	1997-1998	725	722	700	627	739	595	860	943	716
17		80th(P80)	$	1997-1998	1,229	1,178	1,125	1,071	1,206	963	1,281	1,428	1,180
	Ratios of weekly equivalised incomes of households at top of selected income percentiles
18		P90/P10	ratio	1997-1998	4.11	3.90	3.80	3.59	4.07	3.41	4.13	4.44	3.96
19		P80/P20	ratio	1997-1998	2.92	2.68	2.68	2.69	2.86	2.36	2.61	2.75	2.81
20		P80/P50	ratio	1997-1998	1.70	1.63	1.61	1.71	1.63	1.62	1.49	1.51	1.65
21		P20/P50	ratio	1997-1998	0.58	0.61	0.60	0.63	0.57	0.69	0.57	0.55	0.59
	Share of weekly equivalised income received by households with:
22		High incomes	%	1997-1998	40.2	37.9	38.9	37.8	40.3	39.1	35.6	35.9	39.2
23		Low incomes	%	1997-1998	9.8	10.6	10.3	10.9	10.0	11.2	10.4	10.2	10.2
24	Gini coefficient of weekly equivalised household income		ratio	1997-1998	0.336	0.307	0.316	0.308	0.332	0.304	0.290	0.295	0.322

SOURCES OF INCOME

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

	Main source of income - of all households
25		Wages and salaries	%	1998	r56.8	r59.8	r55.8	r49.3	r57.9	r51.5	r72.4	r65.7	r57.0
26		Own business or partnership	%	1998	5.6	5.9	6.9	5.2	7.9	4.2	*3.2	*4.9	6.0
27		Government pensions and allowances	%	1998	r29.2	r25.1	r29.4	r35.5	r26.0	r36.7	r21.1	r15.9	r28.4
28		Other	%	1998	7.5	8.2	7.1	7.7	7.2	6.8	n.a.	12.6	7.6
	Income support
	Main source of income is government pensions and allowances - proportion of all households in selected life-cycle groups
29		Lone person aged under 35	%	1998	15.1	*11.9	*13.9	*17.5	*25.3	*36.6	n.a.	n.a.	16.1
30		Couple only, reference person aged under 35	%	1998	*6.4	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	3.9
31		Couple with dependent children only	%	1998	12.8	7.8	12.3	16.7	*7.4	*11.5	n.a.	n.a.	10.9
32		One parent with dependent children only	%	1998	60.2	54.1	62.4	70.0	56.5	62.7	n.a.	**47.6	59.1
33		Couple only, reference person aged 65 and over	%	1998	66.8	67.0	60.4	72.6	61.5	75.7	n.a.	**32.7	65.6
34		Lone person aged 65 and over	%	1998	81.1	71.0	80.6	79.4	77.1	88.0	n.a.	**51.5	78.1
	Recipients of selected government payments
35		Labour market program allowance(a)	'000	2001	196.2	147.1	151.1	58.7	66.3	23.6	15.4	6.0	664.9
36		Single-parent payment(b)	'000	2002	141.5	95.4	95.2	35.1	45.1	12.8	6.0	5.4	436.6
37		Disability support pension(b)	'000	2002	217.1	155.2	124.9	63.0	55.1	22.9	5.2	6.7	658.9
38		Age pension(b)	'000	2002	601.4	462.8	308.6	170.6	151.0	49.2	5.7	16.5	1,810.8
39	Age pensioners - of persons of qualifying age		%	2001	62.4	65.7	63.7	69.3	63.1	66.9	64.4	51.4	65.8
40	Females - of all age pensioners		%	2001	62.4	62.2	61.4	62.2	62.4	62.2	57.1	64.4	61.6

(a) Point in time data which will not match average of weekly data. This data include people whom receive a nil rate of payment.
(b) 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: Data for income distribution and sources of income (except average weekly total earnings data which are at May) are for the year ending 30 June. Income support data are at June.