Australia's welfare 2005

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• Preliminary material (113KB PDF)(33KB RTF)
  • Title page and verso
  • Contributors
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Symbols
• Sections
  1. Introduction (87KB PDF)(23KB RTF)
  2. Indicators of Australia's welfare (269KB PDF)(987KB RTF)
     • Introduction
     • Healthy living
     • Autonomy and participation
     • Social cohesion
     • Conclusion
  3. Children, youth and families (562KB PDF)(1.14MB RTF)
     • Introduction
     • Australia's children and youth
     • Australian families
     • Adopted children
     • Transitions from early childhood to school entry
     • Pathways from education to employment
     • Risks associated with childhood and youth
     • Conclusion
  4. Ageing and aged care (320KB PDF)(1.24MB RTF)
     • Introduction
     • Ageing in Australia
     • Support and care for older people
     • Use of community care
     • Use of residential care
     • Client profiles
     • Expenditure
     • Outcomes
     • Summary
  5. Disability and disability services (331KB PDF)(1.38MB RTF)
     • Introduction
     • Recent developments
     • Disability in the Australian population
     • Services and assistance
     • Outcomes
     • Summary and conclusion
  6. Assistance for housing (247KB PDF)(570KB RTF)
     • Overview
     • Housing affordability
     • Demographic and social background
     • Housing assistance to low-income renters
     • Assistance to home owners and purchasers
     • Data development
     • Conclusion
  7. Services for people experiencing homelessness (231KB PDF)(647KB RTF)
     • Introduction
     • Who counts as homeless?
     • Another approach to defining the homeless
     • Homelessness within SAAP
     • Iterative homelessness in the client groups
     • SAAP data from 1996-97 to 2003-04
     • Australian Government initiatives
     • State and territory government initiatives
     • Summary
  8. Welfare services resources (212KB PDF)(980KB RTF)
     • Introduction
     • Total resources for welfare services
     • Expenditure on welfare services
     • Funding for welfare services
     • Welfare-related social expenditure
     • Human resources in community services
  9. Data environment (106KB PDF)(51KB RTF)
     • The national information infrastructure
     • Sector-specific and cross-cutting data development activities
     • Conclusion
• Appendixes
  • Appendix tables (306KB PDF)(3.15MB RTF)¹
  • Technical appendix on the ABS 2003 Survey of Disability, Ageing and Disability, Ageing and Carers (74KB PDF)(25KB RTF)
• End matter (200KB PDF)(253KB RTF)
  • Abbreviations
  • Glossary
  • Population tables
  • Index