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Australian Government Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

Research

Occasional Paper 18

Costs of children: research commissioned by the Ministerial Taskforce on Child Support

Paul Henman; Richard Percival and Ann Harding; Matthew Gray. July 2007

The paper is a collection of three reports on the costs of children in Australian families: 'The estimated costs of children in Australian families in 2005–06'; 'Updated costs of children using Australian budget standards; and 'Costs of children and equivalence scales: a review of methodological issues and Australian estimates'. The research was commissioned by the Ministerial Taskforce on Child Support.