Category:Poverty & Disadvantage
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Poverty & Disadvantage Overview
Poverty and disadvantage are not the same thing, but they usually occur together.
Poverty is a relative lack of financial and material means, which limits access to opportunities and resources which are available to the wider community.
Disadvantage is a broader term, which may include the lack of less tangible resources such as community cohesion, self-respect, culture, health and time. Groups may be disadvantaged through circumstances other than poverty - for example, lack of understanding by the dominant culture, or difficulties based on isolation from services.
Measurements of Poverty & Disadvantage
The Australian Bureau of Statistics uses the Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) Index of Disadvantage, which summarises various attributes (such as income and unemployment) of an area in which a population lives. The data is derived from census attributes which are believed to reflect disadvantage, such as low income, low educational attainment, high unemployment and the proportion of the workforce in unskilled occupations.
The Jesuit Social Services / Catholic Social Services Australia report Dropping off the Edge: the distribution of disadvantage in Australia measures disadvantage using a number of primary indicators including:
- Low income families
- Limited computer use and no internet access
- Early school leaving
- Disability or sickness support
- Long term unemployment
- Criminal convictions
- Rental and housing stress
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