ETHICS
AND HONESTY RATINGS:
TOP
5
Nurses
- 94%
Pharmacists
- 87%
Doctors
- 80%
School
teachers - 79%
State
Supreme Court Judges - 72%
BOTTOM 5
Insurance
brokers - 15%
Advertising
people - 13%
Newspaper
journalists - 12%
Estate
agents - 11%
Car
Salesmen - 5%
Source:
Morgan Poll
|
10th January, 2004
An annual
survey of attitudes has found that only 48 per cent of people rated
the ethics and honesty of ministers of religion highly or very highly.
The figures from the national Morgan Poll show that people’s
attitudes towards minister have declined significantly since 1996
when 59 per cent of people rated ministers of religion high or very
high.
Health professionals were the poll’s big winners with nurses
topping the ratings for the tenth consecutive year in a row at 94
per cent (up four per cent on the previous year). Pharmacists were
rated second highest at 87 per cent and doctors third at 80 per
cent.
Car salesmen were ranked the lowest of the 28 professions featured
in the poll with only five per cent rating them highly or very highly
with estate agents only one place above them at 11 per cent and
newspaper journalists one more at 12 per cent.
The biggest movers in the survey since last year were State Supreme
Court and High Court Judges (both up six per cent to 72 and 71 per
cent respectively).
More than 600 people from across Australia aged 14 and over were
interviewed for the survey.
- David Adams
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MINISTERS COME 12TH IN ETHICS AND HONESTY PERCEPTIONS