Information about this survey can be found on the municipal website at www.oakbay.ca under the news and notices section. Residents can also contact the municipality directly at 250-598-3311 if they have concerns about the survey.
Oak Bay Police Department has hired R.A. Malatest & Associates Ltd. (www.malatest.com), a Victoria-based research company to complete this survey. Malatest has provided survey services in the Greater Victoria region for more than 40 years.
A randomly sampled set of households in Oak Bay have been selected to complete the survey, using Canada Post address records. Approximately 1 in 4 households in the municipality have been selected to complete the survey.
The survey will take approximately 10 minutes.
Malatest used Canada Post address records, which only record the address and not any personal information about who lives there?
All data collected by Malatest is kept confidential and no individual answers are publicly released.
All your survey responses will have their personally-identifying data removed and answers will be aggregated together to ensure confidentiality.
Yes, you can decline to participate. If you have already completed the survey and wish for your answers to be deleted, please contact the Malatest coordinator (Corey Burger at 250-384-2770 ext 415 or c.burger@malatest.com).
Yes, you can choose the language drop down to automatically translate the survey into different languages.
It is anticipated that the results of the survey will be available by late Fall 2026.
