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So, what is the typical Australian family’s income?
The latest ABS figures on the distribution of household incomes are for 2007-08. They show that the median gross household income was $67,003 a year, less than half what the $150k-$200k “battlers” of News Ltd’s imagination scrape by on.
Note that the mean gross household income was $85,983, which shows you again that using the ‘average’ can give you a very distorted idea of what is typical or ‘middle’.
However, there’s a problem with using these figures. The problem is that these ‘gross’ household income figures don’t take into account the fact that we all live in households of very different sizes. A household with two adults and no kids will face lower costs and have a higher standard of living than a household with two adults and two kids, even if their incomes are the same.
We need a way to compare the living standards of people across different household types, to get a measure of how much income a person would need to maintain the living standard of the typical (median) Australian. This is known as equivalised household disposable income.
中等家庭收入就比中等个人收入高那么一点。 |
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