Table of contents

  • Preliminary material (176KB PDF)
    • Half title and verso pages
    • Title page and verso
    • Contents
    • Preface
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
    • Symbols
    • Executive summary
  • Sections (306KB PDF)
    1. Introduction
      • Background
        • Scope
        • Data sources
      • Revisions to previously published estimates
        • Australian Government
        • State, territory and local governments
        • Concessions
        • Non-government sector
        • Child care
    2. Welfare expenditure by welfare service categories
    3. Expenditure and funding for welfare services
      • Expenditure on welfare services
      • Funding of welfare services
        • Government funding by welfare service categories
        • Funding by the non-government sector
    4. Concessions to households
      • Concessions through state and territory governments and local government authorities
      • Australian Government tax expenditures
        • Concessional taxation of superannuation
        • Other tax expenditures for older people
        • Tax expenditures for families and children
    5. Classification of residential aged care expenditure
      • Background
      • History
      • Residential aged care expenditures: estimating the distribution of expenditure across different service needs
        • Method of calculation
      • Rationale for and implications of classifying all residential care expenditure as welfare services
    6. Technical notes
      • Government Purpose Classification
        • Welfare services
        • Cash benefits
      • Eligibility for Pensioner Concession, Health Care, and Commonwealth Seniors Health Cards
        • Pensioner Concession Card
        • Health Care Card
        • Commonwealth Seniors Health Card
      • Key data sources for state and territory government expenditure and funding
      • 1998-99 to 2003-04 data revisions
  • End matter (194KB PDF)
    • Appendixes
      • Welfare services expenditure
      • Residential Classification Scale questions and weightings
      • Population data
    • References
    • List of tables
    • List of figures