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Completing a PESTEL Analysis

How to complete a PESTEL Analysis

PESTEL Analysis: Social Conditions

What impacts do societal trends have on your company?

Questions

Questions to Guide You

What are the current societal trends? For example, people used to eat at McDonald's happily; now that is not necessarily the case.
Does the current age of population affect your company's production?
What are the impacts of current health trends and beliefs?
What are people's attitudes towards price, product quality, sustainability?
Are people's attitudes towards their jobs, careers, or retirement changing?

Other things to think about include education levels, beliefs about buying local or locally made, adoption of new hobbies, or behaviours.

Resources

Data and Statistics

Statistics by Subject (Statistics Canada)
Statistical reports about Canadians and their lifestyle, education and health trends.
Data and Statistics about the U.S.
A great source for U.S. statistics, including demographics, health, and education.

Vividata This link opens in a new window
Detailed data from annual survey of more than 40,000 Canadian consumers' opinions, demographics, and activities, as well as their product, service, and media purchases.

Reports and Analysis

Passport GMID (Global Market Information Database) This link opens in a new window
Look under the Consumers menu for reports on households, income and expenditure, lifestyles and population.

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