ANZ-Roy Morgan Australian Consumer Confidence continues recovering from the dive seen the weekend of the Wentworth by-election. Indeed, this week’s 2.6% rise means confidence is now higher than it was heading into the by-election.

Australian employment has grown solidly over the past year with over 400,000 jobs created with a higher increase in part-time than full-time employment. The latest data for the Roy Morgan employment series for October shows...

A total of 15,117,000 Australians aged 14+ (74.1 per cent) read magazines whether in print or online either via the web or an app. That is up 0.7 per cent, or 110,000, from a year ago according to the results released today from the Roy Morgan Australian Readership report for the 12 months to September 2018.

Roy Morgan today releases the latest readership results for Australian newspapers for the 12 months to September 2018.

The trend towards supermarket domination of the alcohol retail sector continued apace over the year to September, with Woolworths Group-owned outlets picking up 250,000 customers and hotel bottle-shops losing virtually the same amount (240,000) according to the latest survey data from Roy Morgan.

New research shows the National Geographic’s special June “Planet or Plastic” issue featuring a plastic bag in the shape of an archetypal iceberg with 90% of the ‘stylised’ plastic iceberg submerged beneath the surface of the ocean has led to a surge in readership for the venerable title amongst Australian readers.

New customer satisfaction data from Roy Morgan shows a mixed performance from gas providers, with big improvements from Elgas, Origin and Kleenheat being offset by large deteriorations from Lumo Energy, Red Energy and EnergyAustralia.

New research from Roy Morgan shows that there has been a big decline over the last four years in the proportion of people with private health insurance that consider it to be essential. In 2014, nearly two thirds (65.8%) of fund members agreed that ‘it is essential to have private health insurance’. Each year since then it has declined further to the current level of 56.9% in August 2018.

New research shows that over the twelve months to September 2018, more than three quarters (77.4%) of general insurance policies were renewed with the same company without approaching any other companies. This is down marginally from 79.3% recorded five years ago (2013) and is evidence of only a gradual change in buyer behaviour in this highly competitive market.

The end of October saw Roy Morgan Business Confidence up 1.6pts (+1.4%) to 113.1 continuing a rebound which began following the Liberal leadership instability in late August. Business Confidence is now almost back to where it was in July (113.6) prior to the leadership challenge.