Integrated Business Statistics Program (IBSP)
Reporting Guide
This guide is designed to assist you as you complete the 2018 Annual Mushroom Grower's Survey. If you need more information, please call the Statistics Canada Help Line at the number below.
Your answers are confidential.
Statistics Canada is prohibited by law from releasing any information it collects which could identify any person, business, or organization, unless consent has been given by the respondent or as permitted by the Statistics Act.
Statistics Canada will use information from this survey for statistical purposes.
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Table of contents
Definitions
Species of mushrooms
Total growing area and number of production cycles
Production systems
Definitions
Legal Name
The legal name is one recognized by law, thus it is the name liable for pursuit or for debts incurred by the business or organization. In the case of a corporation, it is the legal name as fixed by its charter or the statute by which the corporation was created.
Modifications to the legal name should only be done to correct a spelling error or typo.
To indicate a legal name of another legal entity you should instead indicate it in question 3 by selecting 'Not currently operational' and then choosing the applicable reason and providing the legal name of this other entity along with any other requested information.
Operating Name
The operating name is a name the business or organization is commonly known as if different from its legal name. The operating name is synonymous with trade name.
Current main activity of the business or organization
The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is an industry classification system developed by the statistical agencies of Canada, Mexico and the United States. Created against the background of the North American Free Trade Agreement, it is designed to provide common definitions of the industrial structure of the three countries and a common statistical framework to facilitate the analysis of the three economies. NAICS is based on supply-side or production-oriented principles, to ensure that industrial data, classified to NAICS, are suitable for the analysis of production-related issues such as industrial performance.
The target entity for which NAICS is designed are businesses and other organizations engaged in the production of goods and services. They include farms, incorporated and unincorporated businesses and government business enterprises. They also include government institutions and agencies engaged in the production of marketed and non-marketed services, as well as organizations such as professional associations and unions and charitable or non-profit organizations and the employees of households.
The associated NAICS should reflect those activities conducted by the business or organizational unit(s) targeted by this questionnaire only, and which can be identified by the specified legal and operating name. The main activity is the activity which most defines the targeted business or organization's main purpose or reason for existence. For a business or organization that is for-profit, it is normally the activity that generates the majority of the revenue for the entity.
The NAICS classification contains a limited number of activity classifications; the associated classification might be applicable for this business or organization even if it is not exactly how you would describe this business or organization's main activity.
Please note that any modifications to the main activity through your response to this question might not necessarily be reflected prior to the transmitting of subsequent questionnaires and as a result they may not contain this updated information.
Species of mushrooms
Same species of mushrooms are known under different names. For this survey, we sometimes combine several varieties into a single category:
White Agaricus (Agaricus bisporus): white button mushroom, cultivated mushroom, table mushroom.
Brown Agaricus (Agaricus bisporus): brown button mushroom, cremini, crimini, portobello, portabella.
Shiitake (Lentinula edodes): oak mushroom.
Oyster (Pleurotus sp.): oyster, yellow oyster, pink oyster, king oyster, hiratake.
Other species of mushrooms: enoki, lion's mane, pom pom, Stropharia, Volvariella, reishi, etc.
Total growing area and number of production cycles
The total growing area is the standing area used for your mushroom production, e.g., the total area of producing beds.
The number of production cycles is the number of times the substrate in your production facilities is renewed. If you normally use the duration of a cycle: 365 divided by the number of days in a production cycle = number of production cycles.
e.g., 365 / 46 days per cycle = 7.9 production cycles
The total harvested area is the combined area of all harvests for the year.
e.g., 10,000 square feet of total growing area x 3 production cycles = 30,000 square feet of total harvested area
Production systems
Bags: plastic or paper bags of all sizes. The bags can be filled with different types of substrate, such as sawdust, mulch, compost, etc.
Natural wood logs: natural, whole wood logs. If you produce on sawdust or wood mulch in bags, check "bags" and not "natural wood logs".
Forest floor: production of mushrooms on direct soil on the forest floor. If your facilities are in the forest but not on direct soil, please select another more appropriate category. Exclude wild mushroom picking.
Other: any other production system, such as beds, shelves, trays, jars, bottles, etc.