Q. How much respect do you receive from the following people and organisations?
| A lot of respect | Some respect | Not much respect | No respect | Don’t know | |
| Your colleagues | 37% | 51% | 6% | 2% | 3% |
| Your employer | 33% | 49% | 8% | 7% | 3% |
| The federal government | 5% | 28% | 33% | 23% | 10% |
| Your immediate family | 55% | 35% | 5% | 3% | 2% |
| Your children | 56% | 34% | 6% | 2% | 3% |
| Your parents | 58% | 29% | 7% | 3% | 3% |
| Members of the opposite sex (all respondents) | 30% | 55% | 8% | 2% | 5% |
| People older than you | 31% | 56% | 7% | 2% | 4% |
| People younger than you | 17% | 54% | 18% | 6% | 4% |
| Shop sales people | 13% | 60% | 19% | 4% | 4% |
| Your bank | 17% | 48% | 21% | 7% | 7% |
The people from whom Australians were most likely to feel ‘a lot of respect’ were their parents (58%), their children (56%) and their immediate family (55%).
23% say they receive ‘no respect’ from the federal government.
Note: in the original question respondents were offered a ‘NA’ option. The results above have been recalculated to exclude those who selected ‘NA’ for each option