Summing Up

I'm trying with this new thread to get an idea of what we've all agreed on and where we all stand before we start finalizing questions...

Things we all seem to agree on:

Focus on poverty in Vancouver/ Lower Mainland

Focus on poverty generally (which includes homelessness but we’re not focusing on it specifically)

No subjective questions? – (are we all in agreement on this one? Personally I disagree; I am interested in peoples opinions and perceptions but am happy to follow the crowd if I'm the only one)

The Questions: 3 questions on causes/ prevention

           “capability” question goes here (issue of those incapable of earning income vs free-riders)

2 on treatment/ solutions

           minimum wage question goes here

Is this accurate? Does everyone agree? If so, maybe we're ready to move forward with the exact questions and their wording... If you don't like what you see above, edit! :) Great work so far guys, this is going really well.

I disagree with no subjective questions, because it really limits the types of questions we can ask and I believe people's opinions are valid. I agree with your distribution of questions as well - no complaints there.

I think that the distribution of questions looks pretty good. I'll echo both your concerns about the lack of subjective questions, but that's unfortunately part of the problem with having such a small number of available questions; if we had more time or more questions available to us subjective questions would be the next logical step. Thanks Jennifer for summing up what we're looking at right now.

I agree with Jennifer and Jake that people's opinions and perceptions are valid, as they are also important parts of the research. I think we are on the right track. Thanks Jennifer for summing it up! :)

Echoing what's been said already I agree with the format and would like to see subjective questions [little more interesting].

Just to add, is it possible for someone a little more knowledgeable then myself to write down the questions we've agreed upon to date. I'm currently aware of the following: - Do you believe poverty reduction is the responsibility of private charity or government action? - Do you believe increasing the minimum wage in BC [to $12 as proposed by the NDP} will help to reduce the poverty level? I've added the NDP part only to make the question more relevant.

These are the only questions I believe have been generally agreed on. Let me know if i'm wrong.

I think there's been a discussion of a fourth question asking how affected the individual taking the survey is by poverty, and it was a multiple choice question submitted by Rawan near the end of the Possible Question thread. I haven't heard anything about a fifth question, do we have anything we want to end off with?

Are we going to be using that question?

An idea for another topic on poverty we could explore is if there is a level or homelessness/poverty that is acceptable for society? How many homeless people or impoverished people is alright in the eyes of society or the government? Just an idea, as eliminating poverty completely is next to impossible so having a more tangible goal could be a good idea.

I agree with both Trevor and Andre. For the fifth question, maybe we can ask one of the subjective questions proposed by Andre just to get the general idea about the public perception concerning poverty and to conclude the whole sets of questions. Since the number of questions are limited, I think that by having just one question about treatment/solutions should be enough.

Thanks Jennifer for summing up!

Do we have a concerted list of the five questions we want to pose then?

I compeltely agree with the topic distribution of the questions! But, i still think we should have maybe 1 subjective question, at least, similar to what RinYusuf just said about having a subjective question regarding public perception. Jennifer, Thank you soo much for summing up!

Just curious as I'm a bit confused...do we have 4 questions finalized yet? If we do, maybe we can add them to the summing up post. Is the fifth question going to be about the treatment/solutions thread?

I think 4 of the questions are finalized like what Jennifer have said at the beginning of the thread, and would we all agree that the fifth question is going to be a subjective question? Yes? No?

That sounds correct to me. I don't believe we actually discussed what the subjective question would be though. Were there some options we already considered that might work?

Yes that sounds great

Correct me if I'm wrong, but so far these are the questions we have come up with:

1)How does poverty affect you and your family? A) Greatly B)Slightly C)Not at all

2)Do you believe poverty reduction is the responsibility of private charity or government action?

3)Do you agree/disagree that increases in minimum wage is necessary for reducing poverty? A) yes B) No OR Do you believe increasing the minimum wage in BC [to $12 as proposed by the NDP} will help to reduce the poverty level?

...There are discussions going on in the other threads about other possible questions

Rawan I think your right about the above questions except I think we decided to split question 3 into two questions so now we'll have 4 questions to look like :

1. would you be in favor of a provincial wage increase? answer: a) yes b) no

2. do you think that a provincial wage increase will reduce or increase the overall poverty rate in the province? answer: a) increase b) decrease c) not make an impact

something along those lines.

Yea i think that is correct because we previously discussed how we were going to break the question down into 2

Hello everyone! Ok, so the assignment is due today in approximately 4 hours; as such, it seems we should all decide on our questions within this time frame. So just to sum up (correct me if I'm wrong), the following 4 are our FINAL questions?:

• • • Rawan, these are the questions submitted by you verbatim, along with Dalia's submission***:

1)How does poverty affect you and your family? A) Greatly B)Slightly C)Not at all

2)Do you believe poverty reduction is the responsibility of private charity or government action?'

3)Do you agree/disagree that increases in minimum wage is necessary for reducing poverty? A) yes B) No OR Do you believe increasing the minimum wage in BC [to $12 as proposed by the NDP} will help to reduce the poverty level?

4)Would you be in favor of a provincial wage increase? answer: a) yes b) no

5)Do you think that a provincial wage increase will reduce or increase the overall poverty rate in the province? answer: a) increase b) decrease c) not make an impact'

Is everone in agreement with this format?? If not, please make your contributions as needed.

Perfect! but for question 3 are we choosing one of them? if yes i prefer this one: Do you believe increasing the minimum wage in BC [to $12 as proposed by the NDP} will help to reduce the poverty level? because the 1st one is sort of answered in the 5th question

i also agree that 3 questions on wage is too much! question #3 is redundant if we're gonna stick with questions #4 and #5

Yes we'll choose one question for number 3. I prefer the first minimum wage question over the NDP question because the NDP is too specific and might be misleading to believe that $12 is the only option there is or that increasing the minimum wage will always reduce the poverty level.

I unfortunately disagree with the NDP question and prefer the first one.

also question 4 seems to be similar to question 3 so we should choose either or

I agree with Dalia, I think we should take off question number 4 and keep 3 and 5 for minimum wage.

Looks good. I think this sums it up.

Looks good. I think this sums our work up.

I think that 3 questions on min wage are too many... our focus is Poverty, not the minimum wage. I tried to finalize the first 4 questions in terms of wording. Feel free to edit this (PLEASE :), these are just my little ideas!

1)How does poverty DIRECTLY affect you and your family? A) Greatly B)Slightly C)Not at all 2)Do you believe poverty reduction is the responsibility of private charities, government action or private individuals? 3)Do you believe increasing the minimum wage in BC will help to reduce the poverty level? Yes or No 4)Would you be in favor of a provincial wage increase? Yes or No

5)How about something about satisfaction with the current level of poverty in BC?? Something like "how important to you is the issue of poverty in BC?" Very important, moderately important, neutral, moderately unimportant, very unimportant. OR "Do you think that the current number of people living in poverty in BC is acceptable?" yes or no

anyone have thoughts they can add??

1)How does poverty DIRECTLY affect you and your family? A) Greatly B)Slightly C)Not at all

2)Do you believe poverty reduction is the responsibility of private charities, government action or private individuals?

3)Do you believe increasing the minimum wage in BC will help to reduce the poverty level? Yes or No

4)Would you be in favor of a provincial wage increase? Yes or No

as for 5 i think : 5) Something like "how important to you is the issue of poverty in BC?" Very important, moderately important, neutral, moderately unimportant, very unimportant. rather than : "Do you think that the current number of people living in poverty in BC is acceptable?" yes or no

What does everyone else think

ya thats good Nadine!

as for question 5 i prefer "how important to you is the issue of poverty in BC?" because we will get a more accurate respond from the individuals we are surveying since i doubt that people actually know the current number of people living in poverty in BC

I also like the first question for number 5 because the second question assumes everyone already knows the number people living in poverty.

I think question 4 by itself is not really relevant to poverty in BC. "Would you be in favor of a provincial wage increase? Yes or No" Whether they answer YES or NO, it won't help us concerning the topic of poverty.

from what I understand question #3 is a follow up question to #4

but perhaps a fifth question that can replace #4 is: do you think that people's tax money should be used to reduce poverty in BC?

Sorry! I was typing my response and didn't see that others had added since I read the first post. Sorry to NadineAbdulHadi, the NDP part can stay, let's go with your vote for #3!