STYPE. Sample Type (Sample).
LANG. Survey Language.
QF. In which province or territory do you live?
Q1. How closely, if at all, do you follow news about privacy issues?
Q2. In general, are you concerned about the protection of your privacy?
Q3A. How would you rate your knowledge of your privacy rights?
Q3B. How would you rate your knowledge of how to protect your privacy rights?
Q4A. How much you agree or disagree with the following statements: I feel that businesses in general respect my privacy rights.
Q4B. How much you agree or disagree with the following statements: I feel that the Government of Canada in general respects my privacy rights.
Q4C. How much you agree or disagree with the following statements: I am confident that I have enough information to know how new technologies might affect my personal privacy.
Q4D. Do you know what to do if you receive a notification from an organization about a privacy breach?
Q5A. How much trust do you have in the following organizations to protect the personal information you share with them: Banks
Q5B. How much trust do you have in the following organizations to protect the personal information you share with them: Telecommunications and internet service providers
Q5C. How much trust do you have in the following organizations to protect the personal information you share with them: Retailers
Q5D. How much trust do you have in the following organizations to protect the personal information you share with them: Social media companies like Facebook and Tik Tok
Q5E. How much trust do you have in the following organizations to protect the personal information you share with them: Big tech companies like Microsoft, Apple and Google
Q5F. How much trust do you have in the following organizations to protect the personal information you share with them: Law enforcement agencies like police and border officers
Q5G. How much trust do you have in the following organizations to protect the personal information you share with them: The areas of the Government of Canada that provide services like passports, pensions, and employment insurance.
USER. Uses Internet/mobile device.
Q6A. How much of what you do online or on your smartphone is being tracked by companies or organizations?
Q6B. How much of what you do online or on your smartphone is being tracked by the government?
Q7A. How concerned are you about each of the following potentially happening: Social media companies gathering your personal information from their platform to create a profile of your interests and personal traits for marketing purposes.
Q7B. How concerned are you about each of the following potentially happening: Companies or organizations using information available about you online to make decisions about you, such as for a job, an insurance claim or health coverage.
Q7C. How concerned are you about each of the following potentially happening: People using information available about you online to attempt to steal your identity.
Q7D. How concerned are you about each of the following potentially happening: The Government of Canada using personal information about citizens that is available online to make decisions about things like government spending on programs and services.
Q7E. How concerned are you about each of the following potentially happening: The Government of Canada using personal information about citizens that is available online to investigate cases of fraud or tax evasion.
Q8A. How comfortable would you be: Having your face or a photo of yourself scanned to verify your age online, for example to buy alcohol or cannabis
Q8B. How comfortable would you be: Having your voice used to confirm your identity, for example when making changes to your cell phone account
Q9A. Have you adjusted privacy settings on a social media account?
Q9B. Have you deleted or stopped using a social media account because of privacy concerns?
Q9C. Have you refused to provide an organization or business with your personal information because of privacy concerns?
Q9D. Have you stopped doing business with a company that experienced a privacy breach?
Q9E. Have you raised a privacy concern with a company or organization?
Q10. How often, if at all, do you read privacy policies, notices or pop-ups when using mobile applications or conducting transactions online?
Q11. What is your primary reason for not always reading privacy notices?
Q12. Have you or someone you know been impacted by a privacy breach?
Q13. Have news reports of sensitive personal information being lost, stolen or made public had an affect on your willingness to share personal information with organizations?
Q14. Are you more concerned, less concerned or has your level of concern about privacy and the protection of your personal information not changed since the start of the pandemic?
Q15. Are you aware of any federal institutions that help Canadians deal with privacy and the protection of personal information?
Q16. Which federal institutions are you aware of?
Q17. In what year were you born?
Q18. In which of the following age categories do you belong?
Q19. How do you identify your gender?
Q20. What language do you speak most often at home?
Q21. Do you identify as a person living with a disability?
Q22. Are you First Nations, Métis or Inuk (Inuit)?
Q23. Do you self-identify as a member of a visible minority?
Q24. What is the highest level of education that you have reached?
AGE_COL. Age collapse for weighting
REGION. Region for weighting