Results for Roy Morgan Business Confidence Rating* for component questions are as follows: |
2020 |
Jan |
Feb |
Mar |
Apr |
May |
Jun |
Jul |
Aug |
Sep |
Oct |
Nov |
Dec |
Interviews |
923 |
991 |
885 |
1,191 |
1,749 |
1,366 |
1,380 |
1,320 |
1,375 |
1,266 |
1,296 |
|
Q1 Would you say the business is better off financially or worse off than it was at this time last year? |
Better off |
35 |
36 |
34 |
15 |
16 |
23 |
22 |
21 |
24 |
28 |
31 |
|
Worse off |
38 |
35 |
40 |
65 |
65 |
59 |
56 |
60 |
54 |
54 |
46 |
|
Question Difference |
-3 |
1
|
-6 |
-50 |
-49 |
-36 |
-34 |
-39 |
-30 |
-26 |
-15 |
|
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 |
46 |
40 |
43 |
51 |
48 |
43 |
43 |
42 |
46 |
50 |
|
Worse off |
17 |
21 |
29 |
28 |
19 |
21 |
24 |
26 |
26 |
19 |
16 |
|
Question Difference |
27 |
25 |
11 |
15 |
32 |
27 |
19 |
17 |
16 |
27 |
34 |
|
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 |
36 |
39 |
30 |
26 |
32 |
36 |
28 |
32 |
30 |
39 |
50 |
|
Bad times |
56 |
55 |
63 |
73 |
65 |
61 |
71 |
66 |
68 |
58 |
47 |
|
Question Difference |
-20 |
-16 |
-33 |
-47 |
-33 |
-25 |
-43 |
-34 |
-38 |
-19 |
3
|
|
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 |
50 |
45 |
37 |
45 |
46 |
35 |
38 |
36 |
46 |
47 |
|
Bad times |
47 |
44 |
46 |
58 |
48 |
47 |
60 |
56 |
59 |
47 |
48 |
|
Question Difference |
-3 |
6 |
-1 |
-21 |
-3 |
-1 |
-25 |
-18 |
-23 |
-1 |
-1 |
|
Q5 Will the next 12 months be a good time to invest in growing the business or a bad time? |
Good time to invest |
48 |
50 |
46 |
36 |
46 |
50 |
46 |
41 |
47 |
52 |
58 |
|
Bad time to invest |
41 |
43 |
42 |
48 |
43 |
40 |
42 |
51 |
44 |
40 |
34 |
|
Question Difference |
7 |
7
|
4
|
-12 |
3
|
10 |
4
|
-10 |
3
|
12 |
24 |
|
Monthly Roy Morgan Business Confidence Rating |
101.6 |
104.6 |
95.1 |
76.9 |
89.9 |
95.0 |
84.3 |
83.1 |
85.6 |
98.7 |
109.1 |
|
*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. |