Canadian Climate Opinion Maps 2018
Provided by: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication|Published on: April 27, 2021|Last updated: September 26, 2026
Grades: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Type: Data, Graphs, and Maps
Subjects: Civics, Geography
Authors: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
Location: North America
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Synopsis
- This interactive map shows Candians' beliefs, risk perceptions, and policy preferences about climate change. The map can be viewed in English or French.
- The map contains public opinion data for several climate statements, such as climate change will harm you personally, or Earth is getting warmer.
- Students can view data for each climate statement at the national, province, or riding level.
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Positives
- The opinion map tool is easy to use.
- The generated data can be printed and used for other purposes.
Additional Prerequisites
- Students should be familiar with the concept of public opinion and understand how public opinion affects trends.
- Teachers should review the material before deciding on how to implement it with students.
Differentiation
- In groups, students could generate opinion fact maps about different regions of Canada and compare their results.
- After reviewing the data, students could reflect on the following questions:
- Why do you think some regions' climate opinions differ from other regions' climate opinions?
- What are some factors that could influence a region's opinions?
- How could the information in this map be useful for a politician, an educator, a climate activist, or a scientist?
- Statistics or political science classes could read about how the data for the map was generated by clicking the link below the map in the About the Data section.
Using a multilevel regression with post-stratification (MRP) on a large national survey dataset (n>9,000) is appropriate to model people's perceptions of climate change to show relative behavioral patterns, beliefs system, and underlying factors influencing their attitude towards climate change in Canada. This resource is recommended for teaching.
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