Australia's welfare 2005

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Full publication (1.96M PDF; 10.2MB RTF; 757KB ZIPPED-RTF) ^{1, 2, 3}

• 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; 0.98MB 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

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Notes and corrections

• 30 November 2005: This version includes data which was not included in the hardcopy version (1.64MB PDF). i.e.
  • Housing appendix table A6.23 has been added to the online version (pages 454a-454b). This table provides all the data for personal and housing household debt for the March 1990-June 2005 quarter.
  • An amendment has been made to table A6:13 on page 449. The updated page (449) has been replaced in the online version. This table summarises the characteristics of public housing tenants as at 30 June 2004.
• 2 December 2005: An amendment has been made to Table 3.1: Distribution of children and young people across the states and territories, June 2004 on page 64.
  • Previous version: (1.73MB PDF)
• 17 February 2006: Amendments to pages 95, 97 and 98 have been made to Chapter 3 of the online publication. 
  • Previous version: (1.77MB PDF)
• 7 June 2006: An amendment has been made to Table 3.29 on page 116 in Chapter 3 of the online publication in the column for Victoria for 2001-02.
  • Previous version: (1.96MB PDF)

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