Highway of Tears hitchhiking study stalled due to lack of funding – CBC

Jan 14, 2015

UNBC professor Jacqueline Holler says in-person interviews next phase of hitchhiking research

A study on why women hitchhike along the so-called “Highway of Tears” between Prince George and Prince Rupert has stalled after researchers ran out of funding.

The study began as an online survey in 2012, and University of Northern British Columbia professor Jacqueline Holler said the next phase — in-person interviews — is in jeopardy.

“So many people have contacted us saying ‘I want to participate, but I want to be interviewed in person.’ It’s also important because looking at the demographic information that people put in on-line, we believe that we’re not talking to a truly representative group across the north,” she told Daybreak North’s Russell Bowers.

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