You are here:

  • Print

released: 28 Jul 2005 media release

This report provides estimates of expenditure on welfare services in Australia for the period 1998-99 to 2002-03.It also brings together cash and non-cash benefits for people in need of assistance, using an international framework being developed by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).This publication also contains a special feature chapter on child care in Australia.This report provides an important reference for policy makers into field and those working in the community services sector.

ISSN 1323-5850; ISBN 978 1 74024 479 4; Cat. no. HWE 31; 72pp.; OUT OF PRINT

  • Publication

Welfare expenditure Australia 2002-03

Full publication

Publication table of contents

  • Preliminary material (143K PDF)
    • Title page and verso
    • Contents
    • List of tables
    • List of figures
    • Preface
    • Abbreviations and symbols
  • Chapters (282K PDF)
    1. Background and summary
      • Background
      • Data sources
      • Summary of findings
      • Revisions
    2. Total expenditure on welfare services
      • Welfare services expenditure and the general level of economic activity
      • Expenditure per person
    3. Funding of welfare services in Australia
      • Broad sources of funds
      • Funding by governments
        • Distribution of government funding
        • Growth in funding of welfare services by category
      • Non-government community service organisations
      • Households
    4. Concessions to households
    5. Social expenditure
      • Cash benefits and benefits-in-kind
        • Old age
        • Incapacity-related
        • Families
        • Survivors and other social policy areas
    6. Special feature: Child care services in Australia
      • Total funding of child care services
      • Average expenditure per child on child care services
      • Employment conditions of children's care workers
      • Hours worked
      • Workforce
    7. Technical notes
      • Government Purpose Classification
        • Welfare services
        • Social security
      • Revisions
        • Revisions due to changes in data sources
        • Revision due to reclassification of expenditure items
  • End matter (152K PDF)
    • Appendix A: Tables - Expenditure and funding of welfare services
    • Appendix B: Population data
    • Appendix C: Tables - Child care services
    • References

Notes and corrections

  1. 20050728: Additional notes (129K PDF)

Recommended citation

AIHW 2005. Welfare expenditure Australia 2002-03. Cat. no. HWE 31. Canberra: AIHW.