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Job security

5 Apr 2016

Q. In the next two years, do you expect your job to be more secure, less secure or about the same?

  Total

 

  Vote Labor Vote Lib/Nat Vote Greens Vote other Work full time Work part time Oct 2014 Sep 2015
More Secure 14%   14% 15% 10% 10% 13% 14% 14% 7%
Less secure 27%   40% 20% 40% 35% 28% 29% 31% 28%
Much more secure 5%   5% 5% 4% 2% 5% 3% 5% 2%
Somewhat more secure 9%   9% 10% 6% 8% 8% 11% 9% 5%
About the same 49%   40% 63% 45% 45% 51% 52% 50% 50%
Somewhat less secure 19%   24% 15% 23% 17% 17% 18% 17% 16%
Much less secure 12%   16% 5% 17% 18% 11% 11% 14% 12%
Don’t know 7%   6% 2% 5% 9% 7% 5% 4% 15%

 

14% of respondents (up 7% since September) feel that their job will become more secure over the next two years. 27% (down 1%) feel it will become less secure while the largest proportion (49%) feel it will stay about the same. Liberal/National voters were more likely to say their job security would be about the same (63%).

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