Family Facts & Figures
Statistical information provided in charts and data tables on a range of topics:
- Australian Families
- Australian Households
- Child Care
- Cohabitation
- Divorce
- Marriage
- Parent Child Contact after Separation
- Snapshots of Australian families with adolescents
- Glossary
Australian Families
- Family type 2006
- Family type 2001
- Family type 1976-2006
- Families with children 0-17 years, 2003
- Family projection 2001-2026
- Assessment of current housing situation (2001)
Articles in AIFS publications:
- Family size: men's and women's aspirations over the years (PDF 298K) (Family Matters no.69 2004)
- Snapshot of couple families with stepparent-child relationships (PDF 141K) (Family Matters no.70 2005)
- A snapshot of how Australian Families spend their time
- A woman's place? Work hour preferences revisited (PDF 1MB) (Family Matters no.72 2005)
Australian Households
- Household type 2006
- Household type 1986-2006
- Average household size and number of households 1911-2006
- Household size 1981-2006
- Projected number of households and families 2001-2026
Child Care
Utilisation
- Children aged 0-4 years - proportion using formal or informal care, 1987-2002
- Children aged 5-11 years - proportion using formal or informal care, 1987-2002
- Children aged 0-11 years who used formal care only: weekly hours of care, 1987-2002
- Children aged 0-11 years who used informal care only: weekly hours of care, 1987-2002
- Children aged 0-11 years who used formal or informal care: weekly hours of care, 1987-2002
- Types of non-parental care used by school-aged children when parents were working during school holidays, 2001
- Children aged 0-11 years: proportion using formal or informal care by family type, 2002
- Proportion of children in different types of child care services who have additional needs, 2002
Cost of child care and selected characteristics of staff (or caregivers)
- Average fees of different types of child care services, 2002
- Staff (or caregivers) in different types of child care services: Employment status, qualifications and in-service training undertaken, 2002
Unmet needs
- Unmet formal care need of children aged 0-4 years who were using or not using formal care, 1993-2002
- Unmet formal care need of children aged 5-11 years who were using or not using formal care, 1993-2002
- Families with pre-school children who used or considered using child care to undertake paid work: proportion indicating some difficulty in the following child care areas in the last 12 months, 2001
Cohabitation
- Cohabiting couples as percentage of all couples, 1986-2001
- Proportion of people aged 15 or over who were married or cohabiting, 1981-2001
- Partnered men: percentage of men who were cohabiting by age, 1986 and 2001
- Partnered women: percentage of women who were cohabiting by age, 1986 and 2001
- Cohabiting men and women: expectations to marry current partner by gender
- Male partners: satisfaction with relationship with their partner by marital status
- Female partners: satisfaction with relationship with their partner by marital status
- Percentage of cohabiting couples who married or separated within five years of living together
- Percentage disapproving of a man and woman living together without planning marriage by age, 1995
Articles in AIFS publications
- Trends in couple formation (Family Relationships Quarterly No. 1, 2006)
- Trends in couple dissolution (Family Relationships Quarterly No. 2, 2006)
- An update on partnership formation trends: What does the 2006 Census suggest? (Family Relationships Quarterly No. 6, 2007)
Divorce
- Number of divorces and crude divorce rate, 1901-2006
- Age-specific divorce rates, married men
- Age-specific divorce rates, married women
- Divorce and children, 1966-2006
- Median age at divorce
Marriage
- Number of marriages registered 1901-2006
- Age specific first marriage rates - men
- Age specific first marriage rates - women
- Median age at first marriage 1966-2006
- Percentage of marriages preceded by cohabitation
- Category of marriage celebrants
- Male and female partners: satisfaction with their relationships with their partner
Articles in AIFS publications
- Getting married: Trends in choice of celebrant (Family Relationships Quarterly No. 3, 2007)
- Relationships Indicators Survey 2006 (Family Relationships Quarterly No. 4, 2007)