Who is my neighbour?A Social Justice TLLP

Student Survey Results

In this survey we attempted to discover how our student population felt about issues of social justice. The questions were designed to find out how the viewed issues of

poverty, the mentally and physically challenged,and issues related to the elderly

Question 1: Helping those less fortunate than me will

change my life.

4%

8%

14%

59%

15% Strongly Disagree

Disagree

No Opinion

Agree

Strongly Agree

Question 2: Correcting injustice is very important to me.

3% 6%

24%

51%

16%

Strongly Disagree

Disagree

No Opinion

Agree

Strongly Agree

Question 3:When I see an injustice and don't do anything about it, I hace

feelings of guilt.

3%10%

24%

48%

15%

Strongly Disagree

Disagree

No Opinion

Agree

Strongly Agree

Question 4: I believe I am more affected by injustice around me than other

people are.

8%

24%

40%

23%

5%

Strongly Disagree

Disagree

No Opinion

Agree

Strongly Agree

Question 5: It is important to me that my friends are sensiive to injustice.

5%

17%

55%

16%

7%

Strongly Disagree

Disagree

No Opinion

Agree

Strongly Agree

Question 6: I can make our local community better for everyone.

4%

11%

37%

41%

7%

Strongly Disagree

Disagree

No Opinion

Agree

Strongly Agree

Question 7: I can contribute to give more people in our city what they justly

deserve.

3%10%

34%44%

9%

Strongly Disagree

Disagree

No Opinion

Agree

Strongly Agree

Question 8: I am comfortable around mentally challenged people.

7%1%

29%

45%

18%

Strongly Disagree

Disagree

No Opinion

Agree

Strongly Agree

Question 9: Thunder Bay has a large population of people who use food banks.

3% 5%

33%

43%

16%

Strongly Disagree

Disagree

No Opinion

Agree

Strongly Agree

Question 10: There is an increasing number of children accessing food banks in

Thunder Bay.

3% 3%

39%

43%

12%

Strongly Disagree

Disagree

No Opinion

Agree

Strongly Agree

Question 11: People in my community need help just as much

as people in third World countries do.

15%

22%

24%

26%

13%Strongly Disagree

Disagree

No Opinion

Agree

Strongly Agree

Question 12: Poor people are not lazy people.

7%12%

23%

40%

18%Strongly Disagree

Disagree

No Opinion

Agree

Strongly Agree

Question 13: Some People use food banks and soup kitchens only

if they really need to.

4%13%

30%41%

12%Strongly Disagree

Disagree

No Opinion

Agree

Strongly Agree

Question 14: People who use food banks are unemployed.

33%

67%

Yes

No

Question 15: Mentally and physically challenged students are made

to feel welcome in our school.

93%

7%

Yes

No

Question 16: I have participated in an activity or field trip designed

to help others. (i.e. soup kitchen)

40%

60%

Yes

No

Question 17: I have visited a senior citizen facility (Home for the Aged)

58%

42% Yes

No

Question 18: I live in a home where there is an elderly person or a

mentally/physically challenged person.

6%

94%

Yes

No

Question 19: At what age do you think an elderly person is no

longer useful to society?

54%46% No Age

Age

Question 20: How many times in a week do you drink bottled water?

26%

74%

Never

Yes

Question 21: My Family has used a food bank.

93%

5%

2%

Never

Occasionally

Regulary

Summary of Scale Questions

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

Strongly Disagree

Disagree

No Opinion

Agree

Strongly Agree

Summary of Yes/No Questions

0

20

40

60

80

100

14 15 16 17 18

Yes

No