Means of Encouraging Ethno-Cultural Groups to Vote Graph

This horizontal bar graph is titled "Means of Encouraging Ethno-Cultural Groups to Vote." It shows the breakdown of answers to Question S5, "As a member of an ethno-cultural group, what should be done, if anything, to encourage people from your community to vote in federal elections?" The 325 respondents were members of ethno-cultural groups (other than Caucasian and Aboriginal). 43 percent did not know or did not respond. 10 percent said nothing needed to be done.

The others gave the following suggestions:

• better communication or a variety of languages, 20 percent
• culturally specific advertising or campaigning, 10 percent
• encouragement to vote, 7 percent
• education on the voting process, 7 percent
• other suggestions, 3 percent