Wouldn’t it be great to do all these things within a focused environment where people are happy to give their opinions?

Community Polls within the GeoPoll App is that place!

GeoPoll Community Polls allows you to use GeoPoll capabilities and community for FREE to answer any questions you have. It’s a fun place to hang out, too. If you are not creating your own Poll, you are participating in the surveys that others have put up and seeing the results.

How to Access GeoPoll Community Polls

• On your GeoPoll App, tap the Community polls icons at the bottom (three lines at the center). This action opens all open polls in your country sorted by the most recent polls.
• To see the most popular polls (those with the most responses), tap “Open Polls” and select “Popular.”
• To see Polls you have created, click “My Polls.”
• Relive all the community polls you have ever taken part in by tapping “Past Polls.”

How to Participate in GeoPoll Community Polls

• If you find a survey you want to respond to, simply click on it.
• Usually, the answers are single choice so you click on your preference. Your contribution will be instantly added, and you will now see all the results (remember to go back to the poll later to see the final results).
• You can also comment on the poll to give more context to your answer or if the poster needed a comment.

How to Create a GeoPoll Community Poll

• From Community Polls, tap Create + at the top.
• Enter the question you want to ask – please keep it under 300 characters, and clean (ours is a family-friendly community ?)

• Click Save and Continue
• Enter the answer options. By default, you have two options, but you can add more by clicking “+ Add.”

• Click Save and Preview
• Review your community poll. If you feel good about it, click “Send.” Otherwise, you can click “Go Back” to edit the question or the answers.

• Please wait for us to review the survey to ensure it meets community guidelines and start getting answers to your questions – this doesn’t take long.

There you have it! A simple way to connect and learn on the GeoPoll Community – for free! Please note that taking part in Community Polls is not a paid task.

Go on, create your own survey for free now.

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Redeemable GeoPoll Credit

When you complete tasks on the GeoPoll App, you accumulate credit, which you can redeem when you reach a certain threshold which depends on your country. You can earn GeoPoll Credit by completing paid surveys (paid surveys show a credit amount), other tasks, and inviting friends to GeoPoll.

Did you know that you now earn a small token if you cannot complete some surveys due to ineligibility?

Notes:

• GeoPoll Credit mostly loads immediately after your survey response has been submitted and approved. It, however, may take up to 48 hours for GeoPoll credit to be reflected in the ‘Earnings’ page. You can reach out to GeoPoll support if it takes longer.
• You may redeem your GeoPoll credit at any time after hitting the minimum threshold – which varies from country to country. Simply click “Redeem” to see options available in your country.

• To see your GeoPoll credit accumulation history, click on the history button at the top of every page – You may also navigate to earnings by clicking the $ sign at the bottom of every page to go to the ‘Earnings’ page.

Learn more: How to redeem your GeoPoll Credit.

Instant Airtime

For top up surveys sent via SMS – mobile links and SMS-response surveys – you receive your incentive as airtime upon completing your survey to the phone number you received the survey on. If you don’t qualify for a survey, you will receive a message stating that you are ineligible and won’t get credit for that survey, but will have future chances to complete surveys for credit! You must complete all questions and reach the end of the survey to get your airtime credit.

Notes:

• Sometimes, due to issues with network providers, your airtime may take up to 72 hours to receive. Contact support if your airtime takes longer.
• To receive a direct airtime top-up, you will need to be a pre-paid subscriber
• Register for GeoPoll SMS and mobile weblink surveys by entering your phone number here. If you already have the GeoPoll App, you are eligible to receive SMS surveys.

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Africa is known as a young continent for a reason. It is estimated that 75% of Africa’s population is under the age of 35, which means that many of the continent’s sectors depend on the welfare of the youth. When youth spend, save, and invest money, they have a huge impact on their country’s economy.

It is against this background that we recently surveyed over 2,000 respondents aged 35 and under in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ghana, Nigeria, and Cote d’Ivoire to examine how Africa’s youth in six nations are engaging with financial services.

Without further ado, let’s go through some findings from the survey, specifically on how the youth in Africa spend, save, and invest.

Where do the youth get their money?

To spend, save, and invest, you must have income. So, we started by looking at the main sources of income among the youth. 77% of the respondents said their main source of income was employment, including self -employment. Parents provide income for 34%, and some even get money from betting!

What do the youth mostly spend on?

The study found out that the largest average share of monthly spending was for food, school fees (education), rent, and clothing, in that order. In an era of massive digitization driven by the youth, mobile airtime forms a sizeable spend for the youth. There are other common spends by the youth, such as beauty and hygiene products, entertainment, and gambling.

Read: How to earn with GeoPoll

How do they spend?

Even as the use of mobile money and credit cards continues to grow, GeoPoll’s study finds cash remains the most popular payment method. Cash is especially popular with day to day spends like transport, beauty products, non-alcoholic drinks, and groceries. Mobile money, also quite popular, is used for online betting, internet, airtime, and pay-TV. Credit/debit cards are mostly used for video streaming services, insurance, nicotine products, and betting.

Bigger payments like school fees, savings, insurance premiums, and rent respectively, are mostly made through bank deposits.

Saving

Do you save before you spend, or do you save what remains after you spend? Do you set aside a fixed amount, a percentage of whatever you earn, or simply whatever remains? Well, we sought this information in the survey, and the results are diverse across the countries.

For example, more youth in Tanzania and Uganda set aside a fixed amount to save than in Nigeria and Ivory Coast, who are more likely to save what remains after spending. The good news is, most youth frequently set aside some money as savings, although there are some who rarely save or don’t have a savings account.

Why the youth save money

We asked the respondents who said they were saving why they save. With insurance uptake not particularly a priority for most of us, emergencies and medical care are some of the top driving forces for saving among the youth. Other reasons for saving are future goals, education, and to accumulate wealth and buy property, in that order.

Investment

Speaking of wealth accumulation and property, we found that Nigeria was by far the country with the largest investment culture among the youth – an impressive 84% of the respondents said they invest their money. Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ghana, and Ivory Coast followed in that order in the rate of youth investing, compared to those that don’t.

Where the youth most invest in

Among the youth that do invest, business (42%) and farming (34%) were the most popular investment categories reported across the six countries surveyed. Could this be due to accessibility and the fact that business and farming can be invested in little-by-little over time with relatively low risk? This is as compared to buying land, building real estate and stock exchange, which, overall, come third, fourth and fifth, respectfully.

Challenges keeping youth from investing

Given that most youth would want to invest and create wealth, there are challenges that cause many from investing. Lack of money was the most commonly cited challenge, followed by other commitments and low income and lack of knowledge in investment.

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This survey gives good indications on the use of and access to financial services, as well as financial practices by the youth in Africa. So, which category do you and your friends fall into in each of the sections? Tell us on Facebook!

Take part in such surveys by joining the GeoPoll Community.

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