The City of Toronto commissioned Environics Research (2018) and Ipsos (2021) to conduct an online survey among a representative sample of Toronto residents to capture perceptions about climate change. The survey was also designed to gauge citizens’ willingness to take action in the community to help the City establish goals, priorities and metrics that will measure success in this area.
Methodology
In 2018, a total of n=404 interviews were conducted online between October 11 to October 18, 2018 with adult residents (aged 18 years and over) living in the City of Toronto. The survey was 10 minutes in duration.
In 2021, a representative sample of n=1,400 Toronto residents 18 years of age and older have been surveyed online and by telephone. The sample includes:
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n=1000 respondents recruited from an online panel
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n=300 residents recruited by cell phone and landline phone
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n=100 in-language (Mandarin, Cantonese, Punjab) interviews conducted online.
Note:
The files labelled v1, v2, and v3 between years are identical, as they represent the same information, but presented differently. Every question included in the survey will present a list of possible responses to select, each with a unique numeric reference. V1 presents the survey responses in its raw, original format, including all qualitative responses selected. For ease of further analysis, V2 presents the survey responses in a quantitative format, using the numeric reference for each response selected per question.