Essential Report

Household Financial Situation

May 28, 2012

Q. How would you describe the current financial situation of your household?

	Total	Vote Labor	Vote Lib/Nat	Vote Greens
Total satisfactory	43%	53%	39%	49%
Total unsatisfactory	28%	27%	30%	17%
Very satisfactory	7%	12%	3%	15%
Satisfactory	36%	41%	36%	34%
Neither satisfactory nor unsatisfactory	28%	19%	31%	33%
Unsatisfactory	18%	18%	19%	10%
Very unsatisfactory	10%	9%	11%	7%
Don’t know	1%	1%	*	1%

43% consider their current household financial situation to be satisfactory and 28% say it is unsatisfactory. 28% said it was neither.

Those most likely to be satisfied were full-time workers (49%) and those on incomes over $1,600pw (61%).

Those most likely to be dissatisfied were aged 45-54 (38%), not working (34%) and on incomes under $1,000pw (44%).

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