RDP 2013-04: Home Prices and Household Spending Appendix A: The Household Head

Callan Windsor, Jarkko Jääskelä and Richard Finlay

April 2013 – ISSN 1320-7229 (Print), ISSN 1448-5109 (Online)

Table A1: The Household Head
Obs Mean Min Max
Age groups defined in 2003
All ages 1,603 53 23 87
Young 197 31 23 35
Middle 534 43 36 50
Old 872 65 51 87
Obs Per cent Cumulative per cent
Education
Postgraduate – masters or doctorate 716 6 6
Grad diploma/grad certificate 900 7 13
Bachelor or honours 1,661 13 26
Advanced diploma 1,410 11 37
Certificate III or IV 2,971 23 60
Certificate I or II 87 1 60
Certificate not defined 94 1 61
Year 12 1,062 8 69
Year 11 and below 3,906 30 100
Undetermined 17 0 100
Occupation
Non-response 5,137 40 40
Agriculture, forestry and fishing 264 2 42
Mining 112 1 43
Manufacturing 927 7 50
Electricity, gas, water and waste services 85 1 51
Construction 605 5 56
Wholesale trade 261 2 58
Retail trade 383 3 61
Accommodation and food services 162 1 62
Transport, postal and warehousing 443 3 65
Information, media and telecommunications 235 2 67
Financial and insurance services 355 3 70
Rental, hiring and real estate services 125 1 71
Occupation
Professional, scientific and tech services 663 5 76
Administrative and support services 184 1 78
Public administration and safety 676 5 83
Education and training 927 7 90
Health care and social assistance 908 7 97
Arts and recreation services 56 0 98
Other services 316 2 100
Labour force status
Employed full time (FT) 6,131 48 48
Employed part time (PT) 1,581 12 60
Unemployed looking for FT work 68 1 61
Unemployed looking for PT work 17 0 61
Not in labour force, marginally attached 274 2 63
Not in labour force, not marginally attached 4,750 37 100
Employed, but usual hours worked unknown 3 0 100
Number of adults
1 3,400 27 27
2 7,940 62 89
3 946 7 96
4 448 3 99
5 72 1 100
6 8 0 100
7 10 0 100
Number of children aged 0–14
0 9,025 70 70
1 1,139 9 79
2 1,903 15 94
3 612 5 99
4 116 1 100
5 25 0 100
6 4 0 100
Region of residence
Sydney 2,328 18 18
NSW excluding Sydney 2,263 18 36
Melbourne 2,836 22 58
Vic excluding Melbourne 91 1 59
Brisbane 1,307 10 69
Qld excluding Brisbane 1,538 12 81
Perth 384 3 84
WA excluding Perth 6 0 84
Adelaide 940 7 91
SA excluding Adelaide 477 4 95
ACT 222 2 97
NT 43 0 97
Tasmania 389 3 100

Sources: HILDA Release 10.0; authors' calculations