Making a difference starts with our own region, and our own lives.
Vancouver Foundation, with help from Ipsos Reid, asked metro Vancouver citizens three pivotal questions in a telephone survey:
- 1. What is the most important issue facing our region?
- 2. What specific event or action improved the quality of life in metro Vancouver?
- 3. What did you do to make a difference in your community?
The results of this survey can help serve as a compass for our decisions and ideas as our region continues to evolve.
Methodology
These are the findings of an Ipsos Reid telephone poll conducted between June and July 2008. The poll is based on a randomly selected representative sample of 854 adult metro Vancouver residents. With a sample of this size, the results are considered accurate to within ± 3.4 percentage points, 19 times out of 20, of what they would have been had the entire adult metro Vancouver population been polled. The margin of error will be larger for other sub-groupings of the survey population. These data were statistically weighted to ensure the sample’s regional and age/sex composition reflects that of the actual metro Vancouver population according to the 2006 Census data. Discrepancies in totals are due to rounding.
