Results for Roy Morgan Business Confidence Rating* for component questions are as follows: |
2022 |
Jan |
Feb |
Mar |
Apr |
May |
Jun |
Jul |
Aug |
Sep |
Oct |
Nov |
Dec |
Interviews |
1,426 |
1,313 |
1,383 |
1,353 |
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Q1 Would you say the business is better off financially or worse off than it was at this time last year? |
Better off |
32 |
40 |
41 |
46 |
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Worse off |
38 |
31 |
33 |
31 |
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Question Difference |
-6 |
9
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8
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15 |
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Q2 This time next year, do you expect the business to be better off financially or worse off than it is now? |
Better off |
44 |
53 |
43 |
48 |
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Worse off |
23 |
17 |
22 |
20 |
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Question Difference |
21 |
36 |
21 |
28 |
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Q3 Thinking of economic conditions in Australia as a whole. In the next 12 months, do you expect we'll have good times financially or bad times? |
Good times |
50 |
62 |
51 |
54
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Bad times |
47 |
33
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47 |
43 |
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Question Difference |
3 |
29 |
4
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11 |
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Q4 Looking ahead, what would you say is more likely? That in Australia as a whole, we'll have continuous good times
during the next five years or so, or we'll have bad times? |
Good times |
44 |
53 |
45 |
46 |
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Bad times |
50 |
41 |
48 |
46 |
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Question Difference |
-6 |
12 |
-3 |
0
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Q5 Will the next 12 months be a good time to invest in growing the business or a bad time? |
Good time to invest |
44 |
53 |
47 |
51 |
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Bad time to invest |
49 |
37 |
43 |
40 |
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Question Difference |
-5 |
16 |
4
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11 |
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Monthly Roy Morgan Business Confidence Rating |
101.5 |
120.5 |
106.7 |
113.0 |
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*The Roy Morgan Business Confidence Rating is 100.0 plus the simple unweighted average of the difference between the percentage of respondents who give a favourable and those who give unfavourable answers to five key questions. |