the different categories of families living in poverty in Austrilia in 1999 From the table we can see that the different proportions of people from the different types of families living in proverty in Australia in 1999. Firstly it is clearly indicate that the proportion of single aged people of type of families to 6%(54,000) is almost near to the aged couple of family type to 4%(48,000),and further we can see that the most proportion of family type living in poverty is ‘single,no children’ by 19%，which is close to the proportion of sole parent by 21%(232,000),However from the number of the family living in poverty it is a big gap between the family type of "single,no childran"and"sole parent",respectively they are 359,000 and 232,000. According to the form the most obvious phenomenon is 11%（1,837,000）to the proportion of all households of family types，Probably we could make a conclusion that people living in proverty of the family types of all households much more than other family types.