Our Approach
The Canadian Reconciliation Barometer is an online survey that Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Canada complete. People simply indicate how much they “agree” or “disagree” with a series of statements about reconciliation. There are 64 statements in total, grouped to represent 13 indicators of reconciliation.
Through several years of work, we developed the survey statements by:
- Studying what First Nations, Métis, and Inuit residential school Survivors said reconciliation means to them in their sacred testimony to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, now housed at the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.
- Conducting focus groups and interviews with reconciliation leaders across Canada.
- Connecting with groups around the world that have developed measures of reconciliation.
With all this, using the best practices in the science of psychological measurement and public polling, we report on perceptions of reconciliation in Canada.