Survey on Beekeeping in Québec

The Institut de la statistique du Québec (ISQ) is a government agency whose mission is to produce official, objective and quality statistics on various aspects of Québec society.

To participate in the survey, you simply have to:

• access the questionnaire at the following Web address: statistique.quebec.ca/beekeeping;
• enter your identifier;
• create a password; and
• complete the online questionnaire.

If necessary, you can exit the questionnaire and return to finish it at a more convenient time.

The Institut de la statistique du Québec will contact the participants who have not submitted their online questionnaire to obtain their answers by phone. If you are not available when we call, you can let us know what time would be more convenient for you.

Make sure you correctly entered your identifier, without any spaces before or after.

You can contact the Institut de la statistique du Québec by telephone at 1-800-561-0213, or by e-mail at collecte@stat.gouv.qc.ca.

Please mention the name of the survey indicated in the invitation letter or the e-mail you received, as well as your name and contact information. We will respond to your request within 24 hours during our office hours, Monday to Friday between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

Active beekeepers in Québec with six colonies or more in 2024 make up the target population. Our sample is constituted on the basis of the agricultural operations registration slips of the ministère de l'Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l'Alimentation du Québec (MAPAQ) and on the basis of the Règlement sur l’enregistrement des propriétaires d’abeilles du MAPAQ.

Yes. Your participation is essential in order to follow the progress of the beekeeping industry and better plan actions to ensure its development.

As set out in section 11 of the Act respecting the Institut de la statistique du Québec, the chief statistician has the right to determine which requests for information are to be considered mandatory if he deems that such information is necessary to produce reliable statistics. The chief statistician has declared this survey mandatory.

As a result, you are legally obligated to fill out the survey. Under the Act respecting the Institut de la statistique du Québec, anyone asked to provide the Institut with information deemed mandatory must do so within the timeframe and in the format requested.

The Act respecting the Institut de la statistique du Québec is available on Publications Québec’s website.

The Act respecting the Institut de la statistique du Québec guarantees that the information you provide will be kept confidential and will only be used for statistical purposes. All those working at the Institut de la statistique du Québec have been sworn in before a commissioner and are bound to maintain secrecy and confidentiality.

The results of the survey will also be transmitted to Statistics Canada in aggregate form. But no individual information will be given to that agency. All the results will be grouped together so as to protect respondents’ anonymity.

You can call the Institut de la statistique du Québec toll-free at 1-800-561-0213.

You can consult the statistics on the beekeeping industry on our website, in the Beekeeping – honey section. The general results will also be disseminated in the publication entitled Profil sectoriel de l’industrie bioalimentaire au Québec.

For more information about the survey, please contact the Direction de la gestion de la collecte by e-mail at collecte@stat.gouv.qc.ca or by phone at 1-800-561-0213 (toll-free). You can reach us Monday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.