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Economic issue of most concern

11 Feb 2014

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

19 Nov

Unemployment

25%

28%

23%

22%

18%

23%

24%

Wealth disparity

21%

29%

11%

42%

27%

19%

16%

Inflation

15%

17%

15%

4%

17%

13%

16%

Tax levels

13%

11%

16%

19%

15%

13%

Interest rates

12%

10%

17%

8%

13%

9%

16%

Budget surplus

5%

1%

10%

8%

3%

11%

4%

None of them

4%

3%

4%

14%

3%

7%

6%

Don’t know

4%

2%

3%

2%

1%

3%

4%

25% were most concerned about unemployment, 21% about wealth disparity and 15% about inflation. Only 5% were most concerned about a budget surplus.

Since this question was asked in November, concern about wealth disparity has increased from 16% to 21% and concern about interest rates has dropped from 16% to 12%.

Labor voters were most concerned about wealth disparity (29%) and unemployment (28%), while Liberal/National voters were most concerned about unemployment (23%).

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