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Australia's welfare no. 7

Australia's Welfare is the most comprehensive and authoritative source of national information on welfare services in Australia. Topics include indicators of the welfare of Australia's population, ageing and aged care services, disability and disability services, assistance for housing, services for people experiencing homelessness, and welfare services expenditure and labour force. It also features an extended chapter on children, youth and families.

Authored by AIHW.

Published 30 November 2005; ISSN 1321 1455; ISBN-13 978 1 74024 509 8; AIHW cat. no. AUS 65; 512pp.; $55.00

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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

Notes and corrections

The current version of the publication is presented above.

Previous versions of files that have been updated or corrected are presented below.

This version includes data which was not included in the hardcopy version (30 November 2005).
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  - 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.
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 (2 December 2005).
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Amendments to pages 95, 97 and 98 have been made to Chapter 3 of the online publication (17 February 2006).
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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 (7 June 2006).
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