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Household Economic Survey


Year ended 30 June 2004

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Highlights


  • Average weekly household expenditure was $888 in 2003/04, up from $765 in 2000/01.

 

  • Expenditure on housing contributed the most to total household expenditure, averaging 24 cents in every dollar spent.
  • Seventy-one percent of households had access to a cellphone in 2003/04, up from 59 percent in 2000/01.

 

  • Average annual household income was $60,433 in 2003/04, up 12.3 percent from 2000/01.










 

Brian Pink
Government Statistician

25 November 2004
Cat 62.900 Set 04/05 – 091


There is a companion Media Release published  – Household Economic Survey: Year ended 30 June 2004.

 



  Household Economic Survey: Year ended 30 June 2004 (pdf)



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