The survey report, Final Report – Maintenance Enforcement Program Client Survey 2006 was prepared by Burke & Associates Inc., November 28, 2006, based on a client survey undertaken in June 2006.The results of the survey were published via the [1] website of the Maintenance Enforcement Program (MEP) of Alberta Justice.

The survey report is prominently mentioned on the [2] Alberta MEP home page, with Alberta MEP implying thereby that they not only fully endorse what the survey report contains, but that they will base forthcoming changes to MEP policies and work processes relating to its interactions with it clients (a.k.a. “creditors” and “debtors”) on the recommendations made in the report. (See the [3] full survey report, 1.12 MB PDF file, notice that the survey report is not located at the Alberta MEP’s website but at the website of the Alberta Department of Justice.)

The survey report is a summary of a self-serving opinion survey using a self-selected sample. It does not permit to draw valid conclusion about child-support-payers, -recipients or the related enforcement system.

Detailed comments on the Alberta MEP’s 2006 client survey report

–Walter