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Health Professionals Continue to be Considered Most Ethical and Honest
Finding No. 3581 - December 18, 2002

Health professionals continue to top the list of professions Australians describe as having high levels of ethics and honesty.

The three professions most often mentioned by Australians as having high or very high standards of ethics and honesty were all health related, with nursing (90%, unchanged topping the poll for the eighth consecutive year) a Morgan Poll conducted in November 2002 finds. The nursing profession has ranked highest every year since being included on the survey in 1994.

Pharmacists (89%, up 6%) and medical doctors (80%, up 5%) retained second and third place on the list of most respected professions, with school teachers (79%, up 5%), engineers (67%, up 3%) and dentists (67%, up 2%) also rated highly for honesty and ethics.

Accountants and Ministers of Religion showed the largest decrease (Accountants 51%, down 6% and Ministers of Religion 54%, down 6%). This follows the collapse of a number of corporations and Arthur Andersen, and allegations of sexual abuse levelled at Ministers of Religion both in Australia and Overseas.

On the other hand the image of Police jumped to an all time high - with 65% of Australians (up 7%) describing Police as having high or very high standards of ethics and honesty.

Other professions that are considered to be of high honesty and ethical standards by more than half of all Australians are:

  • State Supreme Court Judges (66%, up 2%);

  • University lecturers (66% up 2%)

  • High Court Judges (65%, up 2%)

  • Police (65%, up 7%);

Car salesmen (3%, up 1%) were once again the lowest ranked profession for honesty and ethics, with estate agents (8%, unchanged and newspaper journalists (9%, down 4%) also at the foot of the table.

These are the main findings of an Australia-wide survey of professional ethics and honesty conducted in December 4 - 6, 2002 for which 623 people aged 14 and over were interviewed by telephone.

2. "Very high" or "High" ratings for Ethics and Honesty:

  All Australians
Occupations 76 79 81 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 Dif.
  % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % %  
Nurses * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 86 86 87 86 88 89 88 90 90 -
Pharmacists * * * * * * * * 76 76 72 76 79 78 78 79 80 80 80 86 83 83 89 +6
Doctors 62 62 63 64 64 64 63 65 67 62 70 69 69 65 66 69 72 66 69 74 71 75 80 +5
School teachers 56 54 55 55 55 54 57 56 55 57 61 59 62 61 65 69 68 64 71 71 70 74 79 +5
Engineers * 53 56 53 53 53 56 56 56 56 55 57 58 56 57 59 56 54 57 57 59 64 67 +3
Dentists 62 61 62 61 62 65 63 65 68 65 62 64 66 62 60 65 65 60 61 65 64 65 67 +2
State Supreme
Court Judges		 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 61 61 64 66 +2
University lecturers 47 51 51 52 51 51 51 51 53 52 53 56 55 53 54 52 50 52 57 56 54 64 66 +2
High Court Judges * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 61 60 63 65 +2
Police 52 48 56 53 53 53 56 56 53 53 54 54 53 54 56 59 55 55 60 62 62 58 65 +7
Ministers of Religion * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 59 55 56 58 56 54 48 -6
Accountants * * 51 47 48 47 50 50 47 46 47 46 47 46 42 45 46 43 43 49 45 51 45 -6
Lawyers 43 41 38 41 44 41 39 41 41 41 37 38 34 32 30 32 29 29 26 34 29 32 30 -2
Bank managers 66 66 61 62 61 58 60 58 54 50 49 40 44 41 37 39 37 32 36 33 26 30 29 -1
Public opinion pollsters * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 34 33 29 30 35 35 27 29 +2
TV reporters * * * * * * * * * 16 17 15 14 15 16 13 12 11 12 14 12 18 18 -
Business executives 22 22 22 18 22 19 23 24 21 20 19 15 17 16 17 17 17 16 18 22 17 19 17 -2
Talk-back radio
announcers		 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 18 14 17 17 -
State MPs 21 20 16 20 17 14 17 12 14 15 11 10 10 11 10 12 12 9 7 13 12 14 17 +3
Directors of
public companies		 * * * * * * * * * * * * 20 18 20 20 17 18 17 20 18 17 16 -1
Federal MPs 19 16 15 19 19 13 16 13 14 15 13 10 10 11 10 9 13 9 7 13 11 16 16 -
Stock brokers * * * * * * 19 20 18 18 15 14 15 15 15 13 16 15 15 19 16 18 14 -4
Union leaders 9 8 8 8 6 6 5 7 7 9 8 7 8 9 9 10 9 12 13 11 12 14 11 -3
Insurance brokers * * * * * * 13 15 13 13 12 10 12 10 11 10 9 12 11 14 11 14 10 -4
Advertising people 9 11 9 9 9 8 11 11 8 9 7 8 9 9 8 10 7 8 7 9 10 8 10 +2
Newspaper journalists 12 14 13 11 11 11 12 11 11 9 10 8 7 8 8 8 7 7 9 9 7 13 9 -4
Estate agents * * * 11 9 10 10 11 11 11 11 9 9 10 9 11 10 10 8 11 10 8 8 -
Car salesmen 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 3 3 2 3 3 3 3 2 3 3 2 3 +1
* Not included in poll.

The Morgan Poll is conducted by the
ONLY Australian or New Zealand member of the Gallup International Association.
No other public opinion poll taken in Australia or New Zealand
has this qualification.


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