Perceived and actual unemployment rate in Australia 2018

This statistic presents the results of a survey on perceived unemployment rate among working age population in Australia as of October 2018. According to data published by Ipsos, Australian respondents overestimated the level of unemployment in their country by 18 percent. On average, the respondents thought that around 23 out of every 100 Australian people of working age were unemployed and looking for work, when the actual unemployment rate was five percent in Australia.

本统计数据展示了2018年10月澳大利亚劳动年龄人口感知失业率的调查结果。根据Ipsos发布的数据，澳大利亚受访者对其国家失业水平的估计高出18个百分点。平均而言，受访者认为大约每100名工作年龄的澳大利亚人中约有23人失业并寻求工作，而实际上澳大利亚的失业率仅为5%。