The Essential Report Archive Read the latest report

Household Financial Situation

28 May 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%).

Error: