Nurses highest in esteem, daylight second

Nurses again rate, for the 21st year in a row, the highest in esteem amongst the professions. Fully 92% of Australians over the age of 14 rated them either high or very high when asked the following question in the Roy Morgan Image of Professions Survey 2015:

    “As I say different occupations, could you please say – from what you know or have heard – which rating best describes how you, yourself, would rate or score people in various occupations for honesty and ethical standards (Very High, High, Average, Low, Very Low)?”

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Bumping along the bottom are car salesmen at 4%.

The top 10 in descending order are Nurses 92% (up 1%), Pharmacists 84% (down 2%), Doctors 84% (down 2%), School Teachers 78% (up 6%), Engineers 74% (up2%), Dentists 71% (down 3%), State Supreme Court Judges 69% (down 1%), Police 69% (down 2%) High Court Judges 68% (down 6%) and University Lecturers 61% (down 5%).

Then you skip right down to Accountants 45% (down 7%).

Descending further you have Ministers of Religion on 39% and Public Servants on 35%. That’s before you get to Newspaper Journalists on 18%, slightly better than their electronic comrades, but all ahead of State MPs on 14% and their Federal mates on 13%.

Esteem seems to have no relationship to earnings. Company Directors are on 22%, Business Executives on 18% and Lawyers on 31%.

The biggest losers were were Bank Managers 34% (down 9%), Accountants 45%, Lawyers 31% (down 7%) and University Lecturers 61% (down 5%). One can only wonder why, although scandals in the financial industry could be part of it.

The only significant gainers were School Teachers 78% (up 6%). Good to see! Perhaps Christopher Pyne’s attempts to blame them for the state of schooling had something to do with it.

2 thoughts on “Nurses highest in esteem, daylight second”

  1. Hmmm. Seems the public has got this right. 🙂

    Wonder how the ratings would go if all occupations were considered? Wonder where, for instance, carers, taxi-drivers, production-line supervisors and supermarket check-out staff would line up?

  2. The sample size was 1000 so I’m guessing the 80 that said nurses were not the most trusted were nurses ( I know a few )

    Also another guess is if Tradies had been included we’d have flogged the nurses. 🙂

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