About the survey This survey is part of the project "Workers in the Aging City: Eldercare Labour Markets in Vancouver and Shanghai". The lead researchers are Dr. Kendra Strauss (SFU) and Dr. Feng Xu (UVic). More information on the project can be found here: http://www.sfu.ca/eldercareworkers.html. Dr. Kendra Strauss can be reached at kstrauss@sfu.ca and Dr. Feng Xu can be reached at fengxu@uvic.ca. In addition, you may verify the ethical approval of this study, or raise any concerns you might have, by contacting the Human Research Ethics Office at the University of Victoria (250-472-4545 or ethics@uvic.ca).
The purpose of this survey is to gather information from eldercare workers about their experiences on the job. We are doing research on pay, conditions, and types of employment in the sector. We would like to hear from home support workers, care aides, community health workers, domestic workers, residential support workers and anyone else with experience of paid work looking after the elderly in Vancouver. Please feel free to share the survey link with friends and co-workers in the sector.
What is involved Filling in this survey is completely voluntary. The survey is anonymous, unless you choose to provide your email address at the end for an interview (and this will not be linked to your earlier answers). All data will be held securely, in Canada, in accordance with Canadian privacy and data protection laws. The anonymized data from this survey may be used when we share the results of the study, in the following ways: presentations at scholarly meetings; published articles, book chapters or books; information briefings for organizations in Canada.This survey uses SFU Survey, which stores all information in Canada on SFUâs servers. The anonymized data from this survey will be stored securely for 5 years and then deleted.