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Low-income before and after Housing Costs, Comparing Australia’s Regions
Peter Siminski and Peter Saunders
Social Policy Research Centre
Contact Email: p.siminski
unsw.edu.au
This paper reports on work in progress being conducted by the SPRC in partnership with the ABS, funded by an ARC SPIRT grant. The main focus of this paper is to examine how studies of regional income distribution can account for housing price differences. We examine the rates of people in low-income households before and after housing using data from the 2001 Census and the Household Expenditure Survey 1998-99. The gap in this rate between major cities and the rest of Australia is much smaller using an 'after housing' measure of income than a 'before housing' measure.
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