Q. Which of the following economic issues are you personally most concerned about?
Total |
|
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
Vote other/ indep-endent |
|
2 Sep 13 |
|
Unemployment |
24% |
28% |
22% |
24% |
22% |
23% |
||
Interest rates |
16% |
11% |
23% |
11% |
15% |
9% |
||
Inflation |
16% |
13% |
19% |
8% |
19% |
13% |
||
Wealth disparity |
16% |
26% |
6% |
38% |
18% |
19% |
||
Tax levels |
13% |
12% |
15% |
7% |
12% |
15% |
||
Budget surplus |
4% |
1% |
7% |
1% |
7% |
11% |
||
None of them |
6% |
4% |
7% |
8% |
4% |
7% |
||
Don’t know |
4% |
6% |
1% |
2% |
3% |
3% |
24% were most concerned about unemployment, 16% about interest rates, 16% about inflation and 16% about wealth disparity. Only 4% were most concerned about a budget surplus.
Since this question was asked in September concern about the budget surplus has declined from 11% to 4% and concern about interest rates has increased from 9% to 16%.
Labor voters were most concerned about wealth disparity (26%) and unemployment (28%), while Liberal/National voters were most concerned about unemployment (22%), interest rates (23%) and inflation (19%).