Environics' Public Affairs practice offers clients access to a diverse selection of syndicated research tools. These regularly scheduled surveys offer subscribers cost-effective opportunities to conduct new research or access to valuable tracking data that can be used for strategic insight.

Focus Canada

Established in 1976, Focus Canada is Canada's longest running and most comprehensive survey of attitudes toward public policy issues and political, economic and social trends. This quarterly survey of 2,000 Canadians covers a wide range of topics related to public policy. The emphasis is on analysis and interpretation of the data to help clients fully understand the underlying forces of public opinion that drive Canada's policy agenda.

Through it, the Public Affairs practice can also offer access to the Focus Canada omnibus service, a cost-effective vehicle for exploring specific areas of inquiry in situations where there is insufficient budget for a full customized stand-alone survey or where a client has a fairly narrow area of interest that might not warrant a customized stand-alone survey.

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Focus Ontario

A quarterly survey of Ontarians' attitudes toward key issues on the provincial agenda. It monitors satisfaction with the Ontario government's performance and attitudes toward public policy issues and political, economic and social trends. The survey, which Environics has been conducting since 1985, consists of telephone interviews with 600 adult Ontarians.

Twice yearly, FOCUS ONTARIO also conducts a survey of 1,000 residents of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) This survey focuses on citizen satisfaction with public services and public attitudes toward local issues and problems. Subscribers to FOCUS ONTARIO have access to a database on G.T.A. opinion which extends back to 1988 when the survey was first introduced under the name Metropoll.

Both the quarterly provincial and twice-yearly GTA surveys offer an omnibus service, through which clients can commission focused proprietary research in a cost-effective way.

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Focus Alberta

FOCUS ALBERTA is a quarterly public affairs survey covering current political, social and economic issues around the province. Each quarter, Environics surveys 1,000 adult Albertans and clients are invited to commission their own proprietary questions on any wave. For more than a decade FOCUS ALBERTA has been the largest omnibus survey in the Alberta market, providing the most comprehensive coverage available.

FOCUS ALBERTA includes large samples for Calgary (n=250), Edmonton (n=250), and the smaller cities around the province (n=200), as well as good coverage of three rural regions - North (n=100), Central (n=100), and South (n=100). The province-wide sample (n=1,000) has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percent at the 95% confidence level.

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North of 60º and Remote Community Monitor

The North of 60º and Remote Community Monitor is Canada's only syndicated public opinion survey among Canadians who live above the 60th parallel. Since 1999 it has offered government and business decision makers a unique source of information about those living in Canada's most northern communities. This annual survey is directed to chief executives and senior management in public and private sectors responsible for public affairs, corporate strategy, marketing and government relations. North of 60º also provides an omnibus service for custom-designed proprietary questions.

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Canadian Environmental Barometer

The Canadian Environmental Barometer, is a new monthly syndicated public opinion research service, designed to provide organizations in the public, private and non-profit sectors with an ongoing indicator of public opinion on the environment and climate change. Each month the Environmental Barometer surveys a representative sample of 2,000 Canadians to provide a sensitive and dynamic measure of public opinion (at the national and regional levels) as it evolves over time in response to climate events, government initiatives, political activities and economic conditions.

The research incorporates a core set of public opinion "indicators" that measure key aspects of public opinion on this topic, encompassing awareness and salience of the issues, in the context of other issues, degree of personal concern, assessment of performance by governments (federal and provincial), industry and consumers, and the need for government intervention. The indicators have been carefully designed to zero in on the essential aspects of public opinion, based on Environics' experience and data stretching back almost 30 years.

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Other Environics Syndicated Studies
The 3SC Social Values Monitor

The 3SC Social Values Monitor is Canada's largest and longest running social values monitor, launched in 1983. The 3SC Monitor is an annual survey of 2,600 Canadians that is designed to provide insights into the changing social fabric of our nation by measuring over 100 social values trends, covering elements of human interaction ranging from family relations, work motivations, tolerance for others, quest for learning, experimentation, and consumer behaviour. The 3SC is used by governments, non-profit organizations and leading companies in the private sector to define the kinds of insights that allow them to connect with Canadians in meaningful and innovative ways. Social values-based segmentations include the 13 Social Values "Tribes" and the Environics-Sinus Milieus. It is also linked to the powerful Environics Analytics PRIZM CE geo-demographics segmentation system. Environics is the only Canadian company licensed to use this international research tool. The 3SC has also been conducted in the United States since 1992, in Presidential election years.

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For more information on how your organization can make use of any of these syndicated products, please contact:

Keith Neuman, Ph.D. Group Vice President, Public Affairs
Email: keith.neuman@environics.ca
336 MacLaren Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K2P 0M6
Tel: (613) 230-5089
Fax: (613) 230-3836

Derek Leebosh, Senior Associate
Email: derek.leebosh@environics.ca
33 Bloor Street East, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4W 3H1
Tel: (416) 920-9010
Fax: (416) 920-3299

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