Refined Questions

Hey guys, I agree with Grace's idea to properly define poverty, however wouldn't excluding those that live in government subsidized housing make the our measurement less valid? Also a few of the questions pertain to assistance programs and to the degree that government should be involved so if we were to exclude those that live in government subsidized housing I think we would have to consider altering some of the questions. Thanks Cam for gathering the questions, with regards to the potential answers, perhaps the first question can be answered as Grace suggested with a few options (drugs, mental illness etc). The second question could be a yes or no question and questions three, four and six could be answered numerically (although there would be a scale issue, would 1 to 4 scale as Jason suggested earlier be good?) Also do you guys think that we could somehow combine questions four and 5? Then we would have 5 questions that we can further refine. What do you guys think?