Unemployment Expectations Time Series : Demographics

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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' 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.