48% of Canadians on brink of insolvency, online survey says

Re:48% of Canadians on brink of insolvency, online survey says by msbarnett on Monday April 22, 2019 @02:45PM (#19721609)

That would depend entirely on the sampling methodology.

Since “online surveys” are as a general rule very poorly constructed (frequently self-sampling) I believe it’s that, rather than the sample pool size, that the parent is responding to.

Additionally Ipsos Reed was hired to run this poll on behalf of MNP, whose press release this information is coming from.

MNP, among other things, offers debt consolidation services. There’s incentive here for Ipsos Reed to construct this sample pool to get a result that gets people worried about their debt load.

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Re:48% of Canadians on brink of insolvency, online survey says by emgee_1 on Monday April 22, 2019 @03:30PM (#19722029)

So how many of these 2000sampled families are actually on-line or have proper internet connections? How is this distributed across the country? How many have proper jobs? Are unemployed ? How does it match to the age distribution among all inhabitants? And why would 200 $ be a right cut-off for income?

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Re:48% of Canadians on brink of insolvency, online survey says by nickelcitymario on Monday April 22, 2019 @02:49PM (#19721649)

Ah I gotcha, that's a fair point.

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Re:48% of Canadians on brink of insolvency, online survey says by jacquesm on Monday April 22, 2019 @02:59PM (#19721746)

So, how is Sudbury doing ;) ?

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Re:48% of Canadians on brink of insolvency, online survey says by nickelcitymario on Monday April 22, 2019 @03:49PM (#19722201)

No clue. Wish I had that kind of data.

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