Budget Surplus, economic issues, inflation, Interest rates, tax levels, unemployment, wealth disparity
Q. Which of the following economic issues are you personally most concerned about?
|
Total |
|
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
Vote other/ indep-endent |
|
2 Sep 13 |
19 Nov |
|
| Unemployment |
25% |
28% |
23% |
22% |
18% |
23% |
24% |
||
| Wealth disparity |
21% |
29% |
11% |
42% |
27% |
19% |
16% |
||
| Inflation |
15% |
17% |
15% |
4% |
17% |
13% |
16% |
||
| Tax levels |
13% |
11% |
16% |
– |
19% |
15% |
13% |
||
| Interest rates |
12% |
10% |
17% |
8% |
13% |
9% |
16% |
||
| Budget surplus |
5% |
1% |
10% |
8% |
3% |
11% |
4% |
||
| None of them |
4% |
3% |
4% |
14% |
3% |
7% |
6% |
||
| Don’t know |
4% |
2% |
3% |
2% |
1% |
3% |
4% |
25% were most concerned about unemployment, 21% about wealth disparity and 15% about inflation. Only 5% were most concerned about a budget surplus.
Since this question was asked in November, concern about wealth disparity has increased from 16% to 21% and concern about interest rates has dropped from 16% to 12%.
Labor voters were most concerned about wealth disparity (29%) and unemployment (28%), while Liberal/National voters were most concerned about unemployment (23%).
020913, 2 September 2013, Budget Surplus, economic issue, inflation, Interest rates, tax levels, unemployment, wealth disparity
Q. Which of the following economic issues are you personally most concerned about?
|
Total |
|
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
|
| Unemployment |
23% |
28% |
22% |
20% |
|
| Wealth disparity |
19% |
29% |
7% |
43% |
|
| Tax levels |
15% |
8% |
21% |
12% |
|
| Inflation |
13% |
13% |
14% |
5% |
|
| Budget surplus |
11% |
3% |
20% |
3% |
|
| Interest rates |
9% |
10% |
10% |
8% |
|
| None of them |
7% |
6% |
6% |
9% |
|
| Don’t know |
3% |
4% |
1% |
– |
23% were most concerned about unemployment, 19% about wealth disparity and 15% about tax levels. Only 11% were most concerned about a budget surplus.
Labor voters were most concerned about wealth disparity (29%) and unemployment (28%), while Liberal/National voters were most concerned about unemployment (22%), tax levels (21%) and a budget surplus (20%).