Prince George Citizen polled 1043 Prince George Citizen readers and asked the question: Do you support the federal government's plan to reduce the number of international students?
The poll ran from January 23 to 31. Of the 1,043 votes, we can determine that 492 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:
Yes, it was being taken advantage of by the students and their families 20.12% local, 21.48% total
Yes, it was being taken advantage of by some schools 17.07% local, 16.97% total
Yes, there isn't enough housing and work for them 23.37% local, 26.75% total
Not sure 7.72% local, 6.33% total
No, we need those students to fill job vacancies after they graduate 5.69% local, 4.79% total
No, they enrich and sustain our colleges and universities 10.98% local, 8.44% total
No, the government should reduce immigration instead 15.04% local, 15.24% total
Local Total
Results are based on an online study of adult Prince George Citizen readers that are located in Prince George. The margin of error - which measures sample variability - is +/- 3.01%, 19 times out of 20.
Prince George Citizen uses a variety of techniques to capture data, detect and prevent fraudulent votes, detect and prevent robots, and filter out non-local and duplicate votes.
