Part A - Statistical Literacy / Mathematics in Context

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State of the Nation Report 30 July 2019 WA:

The lest Australian Tuesday. July 30, 2019 NEWS 15 SPOTLIGHT ON AUSTRALIA STATE OF THE NATION REPORT . Median weekly expenditure for childcare has risen. around 145 per cent Why this to $153 since 2002. . One-in-four couples are now "inter-ethnic". woman is . Growth in household disposable income has been weak since 2009 an insight and is now $80,595. . Just under one-in- three households into who rely on some sort of welfare. . About 70 per cent of women are we are employed (the highest figure since survey started in 2001). ASHLEY ARGOON, BRITTANY 2002, when the weekly spend was GOLDSMITH AND SARAH STEGER DRUG ADDICTION REMAINS $62.20 after benefit deductions. The figures show parents are More women are working, their wages are growing and a new Experimenting with illegal substances remains a lure for our kids. relying more on care, given the One in seven teenagers aged 15 to 19 has tried illicit drugs in the actual per hour cost has risen wave of female breadwinners are . Marriage rates have supporting Australian house- past year. That's slightly higher than the average for all Australians, just 50 per cent in the same time frame. HILDA showed parents fallen, down to 18 per holds. of over one in eight. The firepower of the "fairer The HILDA report found having a parent - particularly a mother had become 10 per cent more like- - who smoked cannabis also left a child with more than double the ly to use child care, with one in cent of young men and sex" has been detailed in the lat- two couples using the service for 28 per cent of young est Household, Income and ikelihood of doing drugs themselves. preschool kids, and one in five for Labour Dynamics in Australia Marijuana was the most common drug reported, with one in four women. school-aged kids. HILDA) Survey. A Melbourne Aussies aged over 15 having used it at some point in the past. But couples were also more Institute study from the Univer- Ecstasy was next (8 per cent), followed by cocaine (6 per cent) and likely to both be working. Two in . Young Australians are sity of Melbourne, HILDA tracks hallucinogens (6 per cent). Those who had children or were three couples were dual earners staying at home much the lives of more than 17,000 Aus- married had lower risk of recent drug use. - a rise from just over half at the longer. tralians every year. Risky alcohol consumption and daily smoking were highly linked turn of the century. The latest research, released with taking drugs, where just two in five people limited their Report lead author Professor today, shows the rate of female . One-in-five young consumption to drugs only. Roger Wilkins said there had participation in the workforce been a "societal shift" towards females suffer has never been so high in the women n with young children history of the annual HILDA Sur- "Money has never been an "We honestly don't give it working, where a decade ago depression or vey. issue or a power tool for us . . . we much thought because it's very mums typically returned to work anxiety During 2017, 71.4 per cent of don't make each other feel infe- fluid, what we do for work and when their children went to women were in work - an almost rior because of how much we how much we make," Mrs Mullen school. . 12 per cent of Aussie 2 per cent climb on the previous earn," Mrs Mullen, above, said. said. "To my knowledge he's not "Now we're moving towards a "As long as you check in with uncomfortable at all, he's quite trend where you start work when adults have used at year. And over the past 17 years the proportion of women bread- your partner and communicate, OK with (me earning more)." your youngest is a year or two least one drug in the winners - where a woman earns nothing has to change if you start According to HILDA, t old, and that compounds the use past year (mostly more than her partner - has earning more than them.' increased rate of women in work of child care," he said. risen from 22 per cent to 25 per An assistant relationship man- has coincided with a rocketing Professor Wilkins said it was cannabis). cent. ager at a major bank, Mrs Mullen expenditure on childcare. no coincidence that the earnings Working mother Yin Mullen, said her husband, Jamie Mullen, Each week, families are spend- gap between opposite-sex cou- 34, said her earnings had not 40, was "very proud of what I do ing a median cost of $152.60 to put ples had become smaller and that affected her and her partner's and that I enjoy it and earn really a preschool child in formal care. women were reporting greater relationship. good money". It's a climb of 145 per cent since work-life conflict. The real reason we're still living with mum and dad ASHLEY ARGOON AND dad's six months later. The 27-year-old the truth is it's quite difficult to maintain dramatic increase in young adults choos- SARAH STEGER said he "moved everything back in with rent and get on the property ladder, ing to stay at home, especially among hem" to try and get "ahead in life". especially if you're building or have a women, whose rate of staying with Half of Aussies under 30 still live with "I built a house in Alkimos, but then mortgage." mum and dad rose almost 50 per their parents in a skyrocketing trend while I was living there, to get ahead and Mr Henley said people in their 20s cent across 16 years. blamed on the housing market and mar- invest, I decided to sub-divide the blocks living with their parents was a grow In 2001, just over one-in-three riage decline. so I could build a second house," Mr Hen- ing trend, but one that came at a cost. young women under 30 lived in the The number of young adults aged 18 to ley, pictured, said. "So I moved back in "I know so many people considering family home. They typically 29 staying in the family home has jumped with my parents." moving back home, though it's cer- moved out by the age of 22.1. since the HILDA Survey began in 2001. He admitted living with his mum and tainly not for everyone," he said. But in the latest 2017 figures, Young men are most likely to live with dad held a negative connotation and "Socialising comes at a cost, for that age had blown out by two mum and dad, at 56 per cent, but young meant he often had to explain himself. example, but either way, you end years, to 24.2. For young men, women aren't far behind, at 54 per cent. "Everyone automatically thinks you're up jeopardising things on both the average move-out age was Perth man Leighton Henley moved out sponging off your parents. They don't ends." 23.5 years, an increase on 23.1 in 2017, only to return to his mum and often think of the positives," he said. "But The HILDA findings marked a years in 2001