Current Client Demographics

Hours of tuition and client numbers

In 2006-07 the AMEP provided 8 million hours of English language tuition to 50 218 clients.

Expenditure

In 2006-07 AMEP expenditure was $155.8 million.

Client statistics

During the 2006-07 period:

• 55 per cent of all clients across all tuition methods and SPP were family stream entrants, 31 per cent were humanitarian stream entrants and 14 per cent were dependents of skilled entrants
• AMEP clients (all delivery methods and SPP) represented 189 countries of birth
• 77.6 per cent of all clients had eight or more years of education
• 66.5 per cent of all clients were female
• 14.7 per cent of all clients were aged between 16 and 24, 64.8 per cent were aged between 25 and 44, and 20.4 were aged above 44 years of age
• the most commonly spoken languages were Mandarin, Arabic and Vietnamese.