FAQ
1. What is the Manitoba Consumer Monitor Food Panel?
2. How can I express my opinions?
3. How can I become a panelist and participate?
4. What is an example of a question that I could find on the MCM Food Panel survey?
5. Are the surveys difficult to complete?
6. How will I receive the surveys?
7. How often will I receive a survey?
8. Who can join the Food Panel?
9. Will my contact information be shared with anyone?
10. How do I complete an online survey?
11. How do I get a username to login?
12. Will I be asked to buy anything?
13. Why should I participate?
14. What's in it for me?
15. What are the incentives?
16. How do I know if won a gift card?
17. I am a new participant. Why didn't I get the previous surveys?
18. I have an idea for a topic.
New questions added April 4th, 2012:
19. I received a newsletter in the mail, stating that gift cards were being sent out. Did I win?
20. How many times did you try to contact the gift card recipients?
21. I have an old email link from a previous survey. How can I complete it?
1. What is the Manitoba Consumer Monitor Food Panel?
The MCM Food Panel is an online survey that asks questions about your opinions, preferences and experiences with food & health.
2. How can I express my opinions?
If you like expressing your opinion, become a panelist on the Manitoba Consumer Monitor Food Panel! Click here for more information on how to become a panelist.
3. How can I become a panelist and participate?
Please contact Jocelyne now if you would like to be part of this first of its kind project in Manitoba!
Jocelyne Gaudet, PHEc
Project Coordinator
Email:
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Telephone: 204.487.3716
Fax: 204.632.5143
Toll free: 1.877.538.5543
4. What is an example of a question that I could find on the MCM Food Panel survey?
How concerned are you about the safety of food sold in restaurants in Canada?
not at all concerned somewhat concerned very concerned
Click here to try a sample of our first survey.
5. Are the surveys difficult to complete?
The surveys are very easy to complete. Each online survey can be completed whenever and wherever it is convenient for you, and should only take 15-20 minutes to complete.
6. How will I receive the surveys?
The link is sent straight to your email inbox every other month. If you don't have access to the Internet, you can still participate through a paper copy of the survey. Need help reading the questions? No problem! Ask us how we can help.
7. How often will I receive a survey?
You will receive a survey every other month. For survey distribution and deadlines click here.
8. Who can join the Food Panel?
Only 4,000 participants will be selected. This includes 2,000 Winnipeg participants and 2,000 Rural Manitobans. When current panelists decide to leave the food panel, this leaves room for new panelists to join the Food Panel. You must be 18-years or older.
9. Will my contact information be shared with anyone?
Your contact information is confidential and will never be shared with anyone.
10. How do I complete an online survey?
You will receive an email every other month that has a link to the site. Click on the link and enter your username, which is simply your email address. If you have lost the link, you can also click on the link on the side panel of this site, or click on the link under the Current Panelists tab.
11. How do I get a username to log in?
Updated April 4th, 2012
Your username is your full email address that you had provided to the MCM Food Panel. Use this registered email address, all in lower case letters. If you are an mts user, try using @mts.net, instead of @mymts.net. Lastly, if you are not a registered participant, you will not be able to log into a survey. You may register with the Project Coordinator after May 7th.
If you are experiencing additional trouble accessing your survey, please contact:
Ghada Elgadi, B.Sc.
Administrative Assistant
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12. Will I be asked to buy anything?
You will never be asked to purchase anything.
13. Why should I participate?
This is your chance to make a difference. By filling out a survey, you're helping:
- make sure you and your family can continue to use the products you love,
- develop new, healthier, tastier food products that are better for you and your family,
- create new policies and programs that will guarantee a strong, healthier future for Manitobans.
14. What's in it for me?
In case you don't have enough reasons already, here's another great reason for you to join. For every survey completed you will be entered for the potential opportunity of receiving 1 of 180 gift cards for groceries worth $50 or $125, as well as two incentives of $500 each! Draws will be completed every other survey, giving you a chance of receiving a gift card up to 3 times per year. For survey distribution and deadlines click here.
15. What are the incentives?
There will be an incentives draw after every other survey, for gift cards to grocery stores. That way, you can talk about food and eat it too! Please submit your survey within 15 days of receiving the online link or the paper copy. For survey distribution and deadlines click here.
16. How do I know if I won a gift card?
Draws will be completed every other survey. At that time you will be contacted by phone or email. Your gift card will be mailed out to you, unless you make arrangements to pick up the gift card at our office.
Unfortunately, gift cards that are lost in the mail are not the responsibility of the Manitoba Consumer Monitor Food Panel to replace, but staff members will investigate into each matter to see what can be done.
17. I am a new participant. Why didn't I get the previous surveys?
Thank you for becoming a participant in our food study! Unfortunately, the previous surveys have been closed and analyzed. You can see these results by visiting our report summaries page.
Missed a topic that interests you? We will be revisiting these topics in the future to see if our participants' opinions have changed!
18. I have an idea for a topic.
If you have a suggestion for one of our surveys, please let us know! Contact:
Jocelyne Gaudet, PHEc
Project Coordinator
Email:
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Telephone: 204.487.3716
Fax: 204.632.5143
Toll free: 1.877.538.5543
19. I received a newsletter in the mail, stating that gift cards were being sent out. Did I win?
Updated April 4th, 2012
First, we should clarify that the newsletter sent out March 29th (http://www.mcmfoodpanel.ca/images/stories/panelist_newsletter4.pdf) was simply letting you know that we were notifying the lucky recipients who were chosen in our last draw. Everyone had received the newsletter, but only 178 participants received an email and/or phone call letting them know that they were the lucky recipients.
20. How many times did you try to contact the gift card recipients?
Updated April 4th, 2012
If you were chosen to be a recipient, we would have tried to contact you via email and/or phone three times, sometime between March 21st and April 4th. If the Project Coordinator has left you a voicemail and/or email asking for you to confirm your mailing address, you will have until May 7th to do so. Please email your confirmation at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
21. I have an old email link from a previous survey. How can I complete it?
Updated April 4th, 2012
Unfortunately, when surveys go offline they will not be re-opened. This is to ensure that the responses we receive from the panelists all come from the same timeline. Doing a survey at a different time of year may influence your opinions. For example - a question about accessing local food would receive different responses in the winter than it would if asked in the summer.
