First question “Should there be Sunday shopping (in retail businesses not now permitted to be open on Sunday)?”

Second question “If there is to be Sunday shopping (in retail businesses not now permitted to be open on Sunday), should it be on every Sunday or on only the six Sundays immediately before Christmas?”

When I first read the questions from the survey, I thought that they were a bit difficult to read because of the choice of wording in both of the questions. I also thought that they were very similar in the sense that they could have just been combined into one question. After learning about influencing factors, I now think that one of the biggest influence factor in this survey was the use of language. The question wasn’t presented in a way that was 100% clear, so some people who didn’t learn English as their first language might feel confused after reading the question. In the future, when reading and interpreting survey data I will make sure that I understand the question completely before answering so that my given opinion isn’t different from my real opinion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_Scotia_Sunday_shopping_referendum,_2004