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Expand Up @@ -40,25 +40,29 @@ For the **Canadian General Social Survey on Giving, Volunteering, and Participat

## Part A - Survey Design:

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Describe the purpose of your survey:
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The purpose of the survey is to understand voters' needs of the party and the leader in order to win the election. This will be a rapid survey, as only one month is left in the campaign.

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Describe your target population, sampling frame, sampling units, and observational units:
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1.Target population: Canadian citizens who are at least 18 years of age on the election date.
2.Sampling frame: A random sampling panel with phone numbers and emails that meet the description of the target population and cover all provinces in Canada.
3.Sampling units (same as observational units): individual voter
4.Sampling strategy: To ensure the survey covers all geographic areas of Canada, a multi-stratified sampling strategy is used. First, select a province and then randomly select an individual within a province. It is also important to ensure the sex and age distribution of the sample matches that of the province's population.
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Your 5-10 question survey:
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1. Which party did you vote for in the last election?
2. On a scale from 1 (extremely dissatisfied) to 10 (extremely satisfied), how satisfied are you with "name of the party"?
3. Which of the priorities suggested by "name of the party" are important to you?
4. Do you have any suggestions for how to make Canada better that are important to you?
5. What qualities are you looking for in a party leader in this election?
6. write your question here... (optional)
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Identify and describe survey features:

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1. Sample type: A simple random sampling strategy
2. Sample size: actual number: 16,149
3. Target population: All persons aged 15 and older in Canada, excluding residents of the Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut, and full-time residents of institutions.
4. Sampling frame: List of telephone numbers in use available to StatCan and the address register of all dwellings within the ten provinces.
5. Survey mode(s): self-completed questionnaire and computer-assisted telephone interview
6. Timeline: Data collection 2018-09-04 to 2018-12-28
7. Response rate: 41.9%
8. Weights: estimation weights and 500 bootstrap weights
9. Data processing: several tasks were conducted, including coding, editing, imputation, and creating derived variables.
10. Cleaning, imputation, etc:
Data cleaning and imputation include steps to identify and manage duplicate responses and out-of-scope records. Imputation for missing values was used to ensure data internal consistency.
11. Sources of error:
Sampling and non-sampling errors occurred during data collection. Considerable time was spent to reduce non-sampling errors.
12. Limitations, known biases, etc
Limitations and known biases to the GSS is first, this is a household survey and people with no fixed address or telephone number were not part of the sampling frame. Second, the survey was conducted in English and French. People who do not speak these two official languages were not able to participate. Lastly, the response rate was relatively low, and some results may be underestimated.
13. Link to documentation and any additional sources used
https://www23.statcan.gc.ca/imdb/p2SV.pl?Function=getSurvey&Id=796234
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## Rubric
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