We conducted a survey to 18 random people via internet where we asked questions related to our main topic “what causes poverty?”. Below you will find the questions and the answers we obtained.
General data about the people who took the survey:
As we can see in figure 1 the majority of our surveyed were born between 1999-2004.
Figure 1. Age pie chart.
The surveyed gender is represented in figure 2.
Figure 2. Gender pie chart.
The majority of our surveyed had finished (or were currently in) college, this is represented in figure 3.
Figure 3. Highest level of education pie chart.
In your opinion, what is poverty?
- Not having enough resources.
- When people hasn’t have enough money for living.
- They don’t own any kind of property and they can’t afford education or health services.
- No access to main sources of food or education.
- Lack of resources.
- The lack of the basic needs.
- Poverty is when a person does not have the necessary resources to cover their basic needs such as food, clothing, housing, etc.
- Something that is less.
- Lack of resources.
- The lack of money.
- Not having money or resources.
- When you can’t cover your basic needs.
- When people doesn’t have the resources to live properly.
- When a person doesn’t have money to live.
- Is when people can’t afford some basic things.
- Lack of basic resources.
- Not having enough resources to survive with dignity.
How many people do you think were living in poverty in 2018? (According to the United Nations).
Here the correct answer was 74%, we can conclude that the majority of people don’t know how serious poverty is around the world, this is represented in Figure 4.
Figure 4. Pie chart of question 1 answers.
What do you think are the main causes of poverty?
According to Figure 5, the main causes of poverty are overpopulation, governments, unemployment and education.
Figure 5. Graph representing the answers from question 2.
What solutions would you think can reduce poverty?
According to figure 6, investing in education was the most supported solution to reduce poverty.
Figure 6. Graph representing the answers from question 3.
How do you inform yourself about poverty?
As we expected, social media is the main way people nowadays inform about the current situation of the world, this can be seen in Figure 7.
Figure 7. Graph representing the answers from question 4.
Which ones do you think are the poorest countries?
Figure 8 shows that African countries were voted to be the ones having the biggest poverty issues.
Figure 8. Graph representing the answers from question 5.
Do you consider Mexico as a poor country?
As you can see in Figure 9, approximately one quarter of our surveyed think that Mexico is not a poor country.
Figure 9. Pie chart of question 6 answers.
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