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Poll: Vast majority of qathet region respondents have smoke detectors in home

More than 90 percent indicate presence of alarm system
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In response to a recent story related to the provincial fire commissioner's report, the Peak polled 680 readers and asked the question: Do you have a working smoke detector in your home?

The poll ran from 6/10/2022 to 6/30/2022. Of the 680 votes, we can determine that 424 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:

Yes 92.69 % local, 92.94 % total    
No 7.31 % local, 7.06 % total    
  Local   Total

Results are based on an online study of adult The Peak readers who are located in the qathet region. The margin of error - which measures sample variability - is +/- 3.66%, 19 times out of 20.

The Peak uses a variety of techniques to capture data, detect and prevent fraudulent votes, detect and prevent robots, and filter out non-local and duplicate votes.