South Huron’s International Agri-food Worker Survey 2025
About the survey
International agri-food workers play a crucial role in maintaining a stable economy in South Huron and across Huron County by filling labour gaps in key industries, supporting economic growth, and ensuring the continuity of essential services and production.
This survey is for all international agri-food workers (living and working) in the South Huron region (Grand Bend, Dashwood, Exeter, Crediton, Kirkton areas) who are age 16 or older working in the agri-food sector (production, processing, distribution, and consumption of food). The survey will be open until September 20, 2025.
We want to get to know the international agri-food workers in our communities and better understand their experiences, and we’re asking for 15–20 minutes of your time. The information collected will be used to guide future work in supporting international agri-food workers in our communities.
This research is being conducted by the Municipality of South Huron and Huron County Immigration Partnership as part of their Strengthening the Agri-food Sector in South Huron through International Agri-food Worker Integration project, which was funded by the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership.
Draw Prize for Completion of Survey
We are pleased to offer a draw prize for completing this survey!
When the survey is finished, you can choose to enter your name into a draw for a prize. If you provide your name, it will not be connected to your survey answers and will only be used for the draw.
The following draw prizes for this survey includes:
- One $100 gift card to a local grocer (depending on winner preference)
- Two $50 gift cards to local grocers (depending on winner preference)
- Five $10 Tim Horton’s gift cards
Translation of survey questions
The survey is available in English and 3 other languages (Spanish, Tagalog, Ukrainian) that are most frequently spoken in the region. Surveys that are translated are identical to the English surveys and take about the same time to complete (15-20 minutes). Collected surveys in other languages will be translated into English. Translators will only have access to individual pages or questions that require translation. They will email the translation of individual questions to Stacey Jeffery (Municipality of South Huron) who will enter the data into the survey database.
Paper Surveys
If you cannot fill out the survey online and would like to respond by phone, email or on paper, contact us at sjeffery@southhuron.ca or at 519-235-0310 extension 247.
Personal Information
You do not have to provide your name to complete the survey. When the survey is finished, you can:
- Choose to enter your name into a draw for a prize. If you provide your name, it will not be connected to your survey answers and will only be used for the draw, and/or
- Choose to provide your name and contact information to work more closely with the Municipality of South Huron and Huron County Immigration Partnership for future project components (videos, interviews, resources).
If you consent to share your contact information through the two options above, you can withdraw that consent at any time by contacting the Municipality of South Huron at sjeffery@southhuron.ca or by calling 519-235-0310 extension 247.
Completing the survey is voluntary and you can skip any question you do not want to answer. You can stop or close the browser window any time you like without consequences, but we cannot remove your answers once you submit them because we will not be able to separate the answers from the rest of the data. If you choose to leave the survey at any point before submitting it, you will not be able to return to the saved answers. You would have to restart the survey.
Paper copies of filled out surveys will be sent to the Municipality of South Huron and entered by their staff. Paper copies will be stored in a locked space at the South Huron Municipal Office and will be destroyed shortly after they are entered into the survey database.
Both online and paper copy of surveys will be deleted and/or destroyed two months after the data collection period is complete.
Data Management
Survey responses will be stored in a password-protected file on secure Municipality of South Huron servers. Only Stacey Jeffery (Municipality of South Huron), Mark Nonkes and Emma Hunking (Huron County Immigration Partnership) will have access to the raw survey data. All the responses will be anonymous and will be shared with the Huron County Immigration Partnership and summarized in a series of reports and presentations to Council and project funders. They will be available on the municipal website at https://www.southhuron.ca/government/strategic-plans-projects/strengthening-the-agri-food-sector-in-south-huron-through-international-agri-food-worker-integration/
