New stuff coming

While I never got around to writing that essay on the many hats of the Quebec government, I haven't entirely forgotten about this blog.

As it happens, the association of weekly regional newspaper in Quebec just comissioned an enormous poll (with a sample size of 30 000, which is 0.4% of the entire population of Quebec; in US terms that would be a sample size of 1.2 million) of Quebecers attempting to present an accurate picture of who they are, how they view themselves, and how they act toward the world.

I'll look over the whole thing (four separate reports totalling 88, 78, 115 and 96 pages respectively), and try to put together some cohesive information out of it.

One statistic that's not particularly surprising that I can already point at is this: to the question, "Do you most identify to your hometown, Québec, or Canada," 32% of Quebecers answered "hometown", 51% answered "Québec", and a tiny 17% answered "Canada". Identification to Canada is also a very generational thing: 28% for 60 years old and up, 18% in the 50-59 group, 15% at 40-49, 14% at 30-39, and 12% at 18-29 (respectively 40, 52, 53, 53, 55 for identification to Québec).

More coming on this when I have time to look through the poll.