COVID-19 FARMWORKER STUDY
Photo credit: Hector Amezcua, CAES, UC Davis
The COVID-19 Farmworker Study (COFS) will provide critical missing information on farmworkers’ abilities to protect themselves and their families during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study brings together a collective of community-based organizations, researchers and advocates to reveal information that can only be gathered directly from farmworkers who have been working during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The value of this survey
We are using two research tools, a phone-based quantitative survey and an in-depth interview, to bring the voices of farmworkers into the public conversation about how to respond to the pandemic. COFS is also a tool for funneling resources (in the form of study funds) to community-based organizations and to workers themselves.
COFS is being conducted in three states– California, Oregon, and Washington.
