Unemployment Expectations Time Series : Demographics

Monthly Actual Data from January 1996
Covers:
- Unemployment Expectations Index - Age 18-24, Age 25-44, Age over 45.
- Unemployment Expectations Index - Live with children < 18, Does not live with child < 18.
- Unemployment Expectations Index - Tenant, Mortgagee, Owned.
- Unemployment Expectations Index - Coalition, ALP, Democrat, Others.
- Unemployment Expectations Index - Manager & Professional, Paraprofessional & Trades; Sales & Clerical, Labourer & Operator, Retiree; Unemployed, Not working.
- Unemployment Expectations Index - Primary, Secondary, Trade, Tertiary.
- Unemployment Expectations Index - Up to 20k, 20-40k, 40-60k, over 60k.
- Unemployment Expectations Index - Male, Female.

The survey is conduct monthly by telephone and the sample size is typically 1200 households. Each respondent is characterized by: gender, age, occupation, education, political party preference, home ownership, household income, and postcode. The Survey is used to compile the following Report: The Westpac - Melbourne Institute Survey of Consumer Unemployment Expectations.
The report is concerned with consumers&apos; views about whether unemployment would be more, the same or less in the coming twelve months. The Unemployment Expectations Index was first compiled in September 1974, on a quarterly basis. It became a monthly series in June 1993.