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Workers’ Productivity

30 Jul 2012

Q. And overall, in your experience, how productive are most Australian workers?

 

6 Feb 12

Total

30 Jul 12

Vote Labor

Vote Lib/Nat

Vote Greens

Full time workers

Part time workers

Very productive

15%

14%

19%

12%

12%

14%

12%

Quite productive

59%

59%

61%

61%

62%

61%

63%

Not so productive

19%

19%

13%

21%

15%

19%

17%

Not at all productive

2%

3%

2%

2%

6%

3%

2%

Don’t know

5%

5%

5%

4%

5%

3%

6%

73% think that overall, most Australian workers are very or quite productive. These responses are almost identical to those when this question was asked in February.

Labor voters (80%) are more likely than Liberal/National voters (73%) to think workers are productive. There were no significant differences across income or age groups.

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