Types of Focus Questions

Actual — points out accurate detail for selected items.

What was the population of Canada?

Definitional — points out the meaning of selected items.

If an interprovincial migrant is an individual who moves from one province to another, what is net interprovincial migration?

Comparative — points out the similarities and differences between selected items.

Has the number of births kept pace with the number of deaths?

Correlational — points out how a change in one variable is linked to changes in another.

How does net interprovincial migration affect population?

Decisional — points out the various and conflicting factors in an issue.

Death, emigration and interprovincial emigration all reduce population and therefore the viability of a region. Which of these could you most easily influence?