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Job security

20 Sep 2016

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

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  Vote Labor Vote Lib/Nat Vote Greens Vote other   Work full time Work part time   Oct 2014 Feb 2015 Sep 2015 Apr 2016
More Secure 14%   16% 17% 11% 7%   17% 11%   14% 9% 7% 14%
Less secure 27%   31% 19% 21% 32%   26% 24%   31% 29% 28% 31%
Much more secure 5%   4% 7% 3% 1%   6% 4%   5% 3% 2% 5%
Somewhat more secure 9%   12% 10% 8% 6%   11% 7%   9% 6% 5% 9%
About the same 53%   49% 60% 67% 51%   52% 58%   50% 58% 50% 49%
Somewhat less secure 16%   20% 11% 10% 16%   16% 15%   17% 17% 16% 19%
Much less secure 11%   11% 8% 11% 16%   10% 9%   14% 12% 12% 12%
Don’t know 6%   4% 3% 1% 10%   5% 7%   4% 4% 15% 7%

14% of respondents (no change since April) feel that their job will become more secure over the next two years. 27% (down 4%) feel it will become less secure while the largest proportion (53%) feel it will stay about the same. Liberal/National voters (60%) and Greens voters (67%) were more likely to say their job security would be about the same.

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