State of the economy in next six months

22 Sep 2020

Q. How do you think the economy will look in the next six months?

	Total	Gender		Age
	Total	Male	Female	18-34	35-54	55+
The economy will improve in the next six months	25%	29%	21%	27%	29%	20%
The economy will stay the same in the next six months	39%	37%	40%	43%	37%	37%
The economy will get worse in the next six months	36%	33%	39%	30%	35%	43%
Base (n)	1,081	539	542	338	374	369

	Total	Federal Voting Intention
	Total	Labor	Coalition	Greens	Independent / Other
The economy will improve in the next six months	25%	24%	31%	19%	19%
The economy will stay the same in the next six months	39%	35%	41%	38%	35%
The economy will get worse in the next six months	36%	40%	28%	43%	46%
Base (n)	1,081	298	460	115	104

A quarter of people expect the economy to improve in the next months, lower than the 36% who expect it to get worse. 39% do not expect any change.
Older people aged over 55 are more likely than those aged 18-34 to expect the economy to get worse over the next six months (43% to 30%).
31% of Coalition voters think the economy will improve in the next six months, compared to 24% of Labor voters, 19% of Greens voters and 19% of independent/other minor party voters.

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