Q. In the next two years, do you expect your job to be more secure, less secure or about the same?
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Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | Work full time | Work part time | Oct 2014 | Feb 2015 | Sep 2015 | Apr 2016 | Sep 2016 | ||||
| More Secure | 13% | 12% | 15% | 5% | 15% | 16% | 6% | 14% | 9% | 7% | 14% | 14% | |||
| Less secure | 30% | 35% | 22% | 40% | 40% | 27% | 35% | 31% | 29% | 28% | 31% | 27% | |||
| Much more secure | 4% | 5% | 4% | 1% | 5% | 5% | 1% | 5% | 3% | 2% | 5% | 5% | |||
| Somewhat more secure | 9% | 7% | 11% | 4% | 10% | 11% | 5% | 9% | 6% | 5% | 9% | 9% | |||
| About the same | 51% | 50% | 61% | 52% | 38% | 53% | 54% | 50% | 58% | 50% | 49% | 53% | |||
| Somewhat less secure | 16% | 17% | 11% | 36% | 17% | 15% | 21% | 17% | 17% | 16% | 19% | 16% | |||
| Much less secure | 14% | 18% | 11% | 4% | 23% | 12% | 14% | 14% | 12% | 12% | 12% | 11% | |||
| Don’t know | 6% | 4% | 2% | 3% | 7% | 5% | 4% | 4% | 4% | 15% | 7% | 6% |
13% of respondents (down 1% since September) feel that their job will become more secure over the next two years. 30% (up 3%) feel it will become less secure while the largest proportion (51%) feel it will stay about the same.
Liberal/National voters were more likely to say their job security would be about the same (61%) and less likely to say it would be less secure (22%).
35% of part time workers say they expect their job to be less secure compared to 27% of full time workers.