Statistics Canada Collecting Info on Parenting During the Pandemic

Statistics Canada is now collecting information, through crowdsourcing, on the Impacts of COVID-19 on Canadians – Parenting During the Pandemic. The online questionnaire is accessible from June 9 to 22, 2020.

Many questions have been raised about the impacts of the current pandemic on our society, yet data on the impacts to children and their families is limited. FRPs are being asked to please help to address this information gap by sharing the online questionnaire with families with children under the age of 15.

To help spread the word:

1.Share via social media (scroll to find posts specific to this survey):

2. Send an email using the wording in the following invitation:

Please copy and paste the contents of the Word Document “Invitation to participate/Invitation à participer” into a new email. Do not send the invitation letter as an attachment.

For the subject line, you can copy and paste the following: Impacts of COVID-19 on Canadians – Parenting During the Pandemic: Share your perspective / Répercussions de la COVID-19 sur les Canadiens – Être parent durant la pandémie : Partagez votre perspective

Link to survey (copy and paste as clicking may lead to expired survey session):

Thank you!