4 - The Dynamics of Income Poverty in Australia: Evidence from the HILDA

For example, people aged 25 to 34 and couples with the finding that the more dependent children dependent children, although the more in the household, the lower the probability dependent children in the family, the more of exiting poverty, draws attention to the persistent is poverty. [...] This landmark study, the first The absence of suitable data was the primary of its kind in Australia, was influential in the explanation up until the early 2000s, when Whitlam Government’s decision in 1972 to the arrival of the HILDA Survey created new establish the Commission of Inquiry into Poverty opportunities. [...] The reasons for Of some reassurance is that the lowest income this are unclear, but the higher rate of exit for group has the highest mobility, although most the bottom income group may reflect the same of those in this group in one year remain poor in phenomenon suggested in respect to the high the next year. [...] The Dynamics of Income Poverty in Australia 33 According to the simple four-year poverty count Examining the full 19-year period spanned from Indicator 1, 13.4% of people experience by the HILDA Survey, the changes in poverty persistent poverty over a four-year period—that persistence measures are of the same nature as is, are poor in at least three of the four years. [...] 15.6% for those initially with incomes less than Note, however, that given the small number of 125% of the poverty line, 6.5% for those with people below 50% of the poverty line, in this (and incomes between 125% and 150% of the poverty subsequent) analysis we combine the bottom line, 3.8% for those with incomes between 150% two income groups (less than 50% of the poverty and 175% of the poverty l.