How is the survey carried out?

It starts with you

Everything starts with the companies that take part. You complete the survey as fully as possible and sign it. You also sign the ‘Declaration on honour’. This states that all the information you provide is true, and that you are prepared to give us more detailed information about your solidarity if the jury so requests.

Solidaritest^® and Best Practices aims to measure solidarity in an unequivocal way. So it is important that everybody uses the same definitions and criteria when answering the questions.

The deadline for submitting the questionnaire expires on 13 March 2010. And then your part of the work is done.

Champions and toppers

All the surveys submitted are processed by Vigeo Belgium. To ensure that the results are unequivocal, objective benchmarks are used. All the information you provide in the course of this survey will be treated as strictly confidential.

What companies make great efforts for socially vulnerable people? What companies do less? That's what we now discover. Participating companies are placed in two categories: Solidaritest^®Champions and Solidaritest^®Toppers.

High achievers

Do you score very high on the solidarity scale? Then the Solidaritest^® jury may ask you for more detailed information. That way we can decide whether your company will come out a step higher than the Solidaritest^® Champions and is a real Solidaritest^® Topper.

Guaranteed confidentiality

The information you provide through the Solidaritest^® survey will be treated in strict confidence by Solidaritest^®. No information is shared with third parties.

Furthermore, only the names of those companies in the Solidaritest^® Champions (including the Solidaritest^® Toppers) category will be listed in the Solidaritest^® ranking.