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Private School Usage in Australia 1975–2010: Evidence from the Household Expenditure Surveys
Author(s) -
Gørgens Tue,
Ryan Chris,
Zhao Guochang
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
australian economic review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1467-8462
pISSN - 0004-9018
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8462.12357
Subject(s) - attendance , demographic economics , household income , economics , low income , business , socioeconomics , geography , economic growth , archaeology
The use of private schools in Australia has increased greatly since the 1970s. This article shows that most of the growth has been concentrated in attendance at low‐fee schools, while the growth in using high‐fee schools has been modest. Furthermore, the increase has occurred for households at all income levels, for both single‐parent and two‐parent households, for households of all sizes, and irrespective of whether the household reference person is born in Australia or elsewhere. However, increasing income and changes in household composition can account only for a small part of the trend .