Researchers to track Nunavik household budgets to see who’s most badly hit – Nunatsiaq News
Survey will inform future cost-of-living subsidies to the region
KUUJJUAQ — Researchers from Laval university in Quebec City will launch a first-of-its-kind study across the region in January 2015 to track the spending habits of Nunavimmiut.
The study will involve surveying families from a number of communities in Nunavik to examine what products they’re purchasing and what their weekly budgets look like.
“What we’re doing is going into the household to try to document what your household buys,” said Gérard Duhaime, the Laval researcher who is leading the study, at a Kativik Regional Government meeting last week.
Duhaime has also led the Nunavik Comparative Price Index study in past years which compare the cost of grocery and household items in Nunavik with those in the South.
