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Table 5 Household composition and working status
Household type N %
Family with mainly school age children 270 41.5
Family with mainly adult children living at home 112 17.2
Family with mainly pre-school children 83 12.7
Older couple with no children at home 81 12.4
Older single person living alone 53 8.1
Flatting with others 23 3.5
Young couple with no children at home 14 2.2
Young single person living alone 8 1.2
Refused to answer 7 1.1
Total 651 100.0
Working status %
Employed full time (30 hours or more) 297 46%
Employed part-time (under 30 hours) 92 14%
Full-time student 32 5%
Unemployed/not working 63 10%
Homemaker 94 14%
Retired 69 11%
Refused 4 1%
651 100%
Approximately one-fifth of respondents’ (21.4%) had a household income of less than $21,000 per year (Table 6).
Sixteen percent of respondents’ had an annual household income greater than $77,000.
Table 6 Respondents’ annual household income
Combined household income before tax N %
Under $21,000 139 21.4
$21,000 - $33,000 107 16.4
$33,000 - $52,000 135 20.7
$52,000 - $77,000 113 17.4
Over $77,000 104 16.0
Don’t Know/Refused 53 8.1
Total 651 100.0
Half of the respondents’ (N=327, 50.2%) did not have either a Community Services Card (CSC) or a High Use
Health Card (HUHC) (Table 7). Just under half of the respondents’ held a Community Services Card, either by itself
(N=286, 43.9%) or in conjunction with a High Use Health Card (N=22, 3.4%).
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