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Poll: 80 per cent of qathet region respondents unprepared for quick evacuation

Four in five indicate not having a grab-and-go bag ready for emergency situation
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The Peak polled 439 readers and asked the question: Do you have grab-and-go bags ready if your family needs to evacuate your home due to flooding or wildfire?

The poll ran from 5/6/2022 to 5/20/2022. Of the 439 votes, we can determine that 275 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:

Yes 20.00 % local, 22.78 % total    
No 80.00 % local, 77.22 % total    
  Local   Total

Results are based on an online study of readers that are located in the qathet region. The margin of error - which measures sample variability - is +/- 4.6%, 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.