Ipsos Issues Monitor Feb 24
Ipsos has published their excellent Issues Monitor for February 2024. Below I look at key findings, and compare them to 12 months ago.
Top Issues (can choose three)
- Inflation 59% (-6%)
- Housing 33% (nc)
- Health 33% (+6%)
- Crime 27% (-6%)
- Economy 25% (+3%)
- Climate change 18% (-9%)
- Poverty 18% (nc)
- Fuel prices 13% (-3%)
- Transport 10% (+2%)
- Education 9% (+2%)
Govt performance is at 4.6/10 – just below the 4.7 the last Govt had. The Govt will want to see that improve quickly.
The party deemed best (and margin to next party) on each of the top 10 issues is:
- Inflation National +16% (+13%)
- Housing National +9% (+10%)
- Health National +5% (+16%)
- Crime National +22% (+17%)
- Economy National +25% (+16%)
- Climate change Greens
- Poverty Labour
- Fuel prices National
- Transport National
- Education National
This is very good for National. They lead Labour on all the top five issues and eight of the top ten issues. And they lead Labour by far greater margins than a year ago.