Survey on Potatoes, Seeding

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

To participate in the survey, you simply have to:

• go to the following Web address: https://statistique.quebec.ca/e362023e;
• enter your identifier;
• create a password; and
• complete the online questionnaire.

Since most questions require searching for information, we strongly suggest that you start by filling out the paper version of the questionnaire, which can be accessed by clicking on this link: https://statistique.quebec.ca/en/fichier/036-quest-an.pdf.

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

The Institut 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 by telephone at 1-800-561-0213, or by e-mail at collecte@stat.gouv.qc.ca.

In your message, please mention the name of the survey from your invitation letter or the e-mail you received, as well as your name, your file number and contact information.

We will respond to your request within 24 hours during our office hours: Monday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

For quality and training purposes, telephone interviews with the Institut de la statistique du Québec agents are recorded. However, if you don't want the call to be recorded, simply notify the agent at the beginning of the call.

Your enterprise was chosen from the list of potato producers registered with the Ministère de l’Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l’Alimentation du Québec (MAPAQ). Producers from all Québec regions are asked to take part in the survey.

Yes. Your participation is essential in order to provide the government, biofood industry stakeholders, and the interested public with quality data about your industry.

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.

You can view the Act respecting the Institut de la statistique du Québec 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 Statistique Québec employees have taken an oath before a commissioner and are bound to maintain the secrecy and confidentiality of the data they collect.

The people in charge of the survey at the Institut have access to the data you provide. This is a limited number of people. The survey results are also sent to Statistics Canada, which integrates them into its data on Canadian potato production.

However, when the survey results are published, the data are grouped together to ensure respondent anonymity.

You can call the Institut toll-free at 1-800-561-0213.

The data collected remain confidential. However, as soon as the results of the survey are available, you will be able to view them on our website, by clicking on the following link: https://statistique.quebec.ca/en/recherche?sujet=potatoes.

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). In your message, please mention the name of the survey from your invitation letter or the e-mail you received, as well as your name, your file number and contact information. You can reach us Monday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.