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Regulating Pay Day Loan

Companies in Alberta.What do Albertans think? 

 A study conducted for Progress Alberta

December 2015

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Methodology

Online Survey1,000

Residents of Alberta

Field dates December 2 to 7, 2015

Statistical WeightingData was weighted by age,

gender, education and region.

Sample source

Sample was recruited from

Research Now’s national panel of

over 500,000 Canadians

Survey hosting

 Abacus Data programmed and

hosted the survey on servers

located in Canada.

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Operation of Pay Day Loan Companies

 All Respondents, n=1,000

17%

83%

Pay day loan companies should be allowed to operate in Alberta as they currently do.

New regulations should be introduced that better protect Albertans from predatory pay day loan companies.

Which of the following statements comes closest to your view? Q

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Operation of Pay Day Loan Companies | Demographics and Region

 All Respondents, n=1,000

17%

20%

14%

25%

15%

13%

22%

21%

13%

14%

83%

80%

86%

75%

85%

87%

78%

79%

87%

86%

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

 Alberta (1000)

Calgary (353)

Edmonton (364)

Northern Alberta (71)

Central Alberta (96)

Southern Alberta (116)

18 - 29 (125)

30 - 44 (308)

45 - 59 (314)

60+ (253)

Pay day loan companies should be allowed to operate in

 Alberta as they currently do.New regulations should be introduced that better protect

 Albertans from predatory pay day loan companies.

17%

20%

16%

15%

17%

18%

18%

15%

19%

83%

80%

84%

85%

83%

82%

82%

85%

81%

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

 Alberta (1000)

HS or less (193)

College (430)

University (377)

Male (450)

Female (550)

Urban (509)

Suburban (329)

Rural (162)

Region

Age

Education

Gender

Community

Type

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Operations of Pay Day Loan Companies | Political Variables

 All Respondents, n=1,000

17%

28%

20%

19%

13%

7%

9%

18%

19%

16%

7%

83%

72%

80%

81%

87%

93%

91%

82%

81%

84%

93%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

 Alberta (1000)

Conservative (110)

Lean Conservative (189)

Centrist (300)

Lean Progressive (237)

Progressive (164)

 Alberta NDP (274)

Wildrose (151)

 Alberta PC (226)

 Alberta Liberal (55)

Other (34)

Pay day loan companies should be allowed to operate in Alberta as they currently do.

New regulations should be introduced that better protect Albertans from predatory pay day loan companies.

Self Ideology

2015 Prov. Vote

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CONTACT INFO

David Coletto

CEOdavid@abacusdata.ca

613-232-2806

www.abacusdata.ca