The succeeding table gives, for the Commonwealth as a whole, a distribution of the

number and unimproved values of freehold
estates according to grade of ownership:—
Estates, 30th June, 1915.

XXI.-Number and Unimproved Value of Freehold

9. Correlation of Income and Assets. The
sociologic importance of ascertaining the re-
lations which subsist on the average between
wealth possessed and income enjoyed (the
plutoprosodic relation) is self-evident.

The data which furnish these relations are
given in the following tables, showing the
number of males and females respectively,

out of a recorded total of 1,380,208 males, and
811,737 females, whose incomes and whose
assets each range through £1 sterling at a
position approximately at the centre of the
several ranges. In order to reduce the num-
ber of decimals to be expressed, the quanti-
ties found by dividing the product of each
range of income by the range of the corre-

of income and its associated range of asset.
The relation is not very regular, but, never-
theless, can be satisfactorily followed:-

sponding asset have all been multiplied by
1000. The tabular quantities, therefore, are
1000 times the average taken over each range
XXII.-Frequency (multiplied by 1000) per unit of Range (Pound Sterling) of Wealth and
Income, i.e., 1000 times the number of Persons of a given Range of Wealth and a given
Range of Income divided by the Product of the Range of Wealth into the corresponding
Range of Income. Australia, 30th June, 1915.

Value.

Aver.

Value under 100- 250- 500- 750-1,000 2,500-5,000-10,000 15,000-20,000-25,000 50,000-75,000of In- 100 250 500 750 1,000 2,500 5,000 10,000 15,000 20,000 25,000 50,000 75,000 100,000

come.

3000-4000

2431 .030 .073 .076 .084 056
3412

.0480 .0440 .0516

.0512

.042

.028

.0161

.0050 .00100

.013 .012 .040 .012 .0130.00880 .0104
4494 .010 .007 .004
.008 .0080.00640 .0048 .0044 .006 .008
9786

.0106

.016

.013 .0084

.0042 .00110

.0042 .0020 .00130

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