In this report we use a data set that captures a 5 percent sample of individuals residing in Australia over three Census years: 2006, 2011and 2016.1
We capture family income and sociodemographic measures for these individuals, which allows us to shed light on the poverty faced by Australians at a household level and how this poverty varies over time. We use these data to estimate who is likely to experience income-based poverty in any single year, who is more likely to move into or out of poverty over the sample period, and who is at greatest risk of experiencing poverty over multiple years and cycles. The analysis advances our collective ability to identify and map the complexity of cycles of disadvantage and make them visible in ways that will help us to improve practice and policy to address poverty in Australia.
