Economist

Tasks and duties

• Carrying out surveys and collecting macroeconomic data (i.e. consumption spending, business investment, government spending, exports and imports) in order to predict when a rise or fall in the growth of the economy will occur.
• Preparing reports and charts that forecast market trends (e.g. retail spending, housing approvals).
• Collating and interpreting complex information and data such as terms of trade or exchange rate movements.
• Using spreadsheets, software programs, database management programs, and statistical analysis.
• Creating mathematical models to predict future economic developments.
• Communicating your findings in reports and charts to make the data understandable to stakeholders.
• Analysing microeconomic data such as market share and size of companies.