Impacts of COVID-19 on Canadians - Experiences of Discrimination, 2020: Crowdsource file

<p>The data collection series Crowdsourcing: Impacts of COVID-19 on Canadians is designed to assess the quality and viability of a more timely collection model using willing participants and web-only collection. The Crowdsourcing: Impacts of COVID-19 on Canadians - Experiences with discrimination is the seventh iteration in the continuing series of crowdsourcing cycles. The overall goal of the crowdsourcing initiative is to invite all members of the Canadian population to participate in a data collection exercise on a voluntary basis. The main topic of this seventh crowdsourcing was to evaluate how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted confidence and trust in various institutions, general public, and neighbours, and to determine if experiences with discrimination before and during the pandemic has disproportionally impacted certain groups more than others. </p> <p>In the context of this product, the term crowdsourcing refers to the process of collecting information via an online questionnaire. Open advertising was used to obtain participants who chose to self-select by completing the questionnaire. As such, the crowdsourcing data was collected through a completely non-probabilistic approach which does not involve a random selection of respondents like other traditional Statistics Canada surveys. Therefore, results pertain only to the participants and cannot be used to draw conclusions about the larger population of individuals in Canada who live with a long-term condition or disability. </p>

“众包：新冠疫情对加拿大人（Crowdsourcing: Impacts of COVID-19 on Canadians）”数据收集系列，旨在评估采用自愿参与者与纯网络收集方式的更及时数据收集模式的质量与可行性。其中“众包：新冠疫情对加拿大人——歧视经历（Crowdsourcing: Impacts of COVID-19 on Canadians - Experiences with discrimination）”是该系列众包循环的第七期项目。该众包项目的总体目标是邀请加拿大全体民众自愿参与数据收集工作。本次第七期众包项目的核心主题为评估新冠疫情如何影响公众对各类机构、普通公众及邻里的信心与信任，并探究疫情前后的歧视经历是否对特定群体造成了不成比例的更大冲击。
在本数据集的语境中，“众包（crowdsourcing）”指通过在线问卷收集信息的流程。本次研究通过公开广告招募自愿完成问卷的参与者，由受访者自主选择参与，因此采用完全非概率抽样的方式收集众包数据，并未如加拿大统计局（Statistics Canada）的传统调查那般进行随机抽样。故此，本研究结果仅适用于本次参与的受访者，无法用于推断加拿大境内所有存在长期病症或残疾的更大规模人群的相关情况。