What do we want to measure?

I agree with you all as well in regards to framing the questions that will get the preceptions of the causes of poverty and homelessness, but I am also wondering if we focus only in vancouver, or do we broaden it to include the entire province?

I also agree with both Jennifer Samuels and Trevor, maybe it would be good to incorporate both a prevention question and also a possible solution question. Is this plausible? or too much?

I don't think it would be too hard to add a prevention and a solution question, the only concern is that we only get five questions, and that would be two, so it would be hard to get too much more detailed information on any other topic if that's how we've chosen to do this.

Yeah, 5 questions is not much to work with.

I do like Jenn S's idea of a question about a poverty reduction plan, and I definitely think we should focus one question on measuring 3) which Ekateryna suggested.

If we were to incorporate a poverty reduction plan into our question, I wonder if we would need to state the specifics of what this would entail (considering our respondents may want to satisfy their curiosity as to how/why such a plan may succeed).

For instance, should we include a follow-up question such as: "Which method of a poverty reduction plan would be most favoured by you?" A.) Increased provincial minimum wage B.) Increased provincial welfare payments C.) Decreased federal income taxation for those who fall below the national poverty line

(***I've just included a provincial/federal element here, but not too sure whether it's necessary...any thoughts?***)