1st Edition

Surveying Ethnic Minorities and Immigrant Populations Methodological Challenges and Research Strategies

290 Pages

by Routledge

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What are the special problems involved in surveying immigrant populations and ethnic minorities? How can we ensure adequate representation of these growing groups in general population surveys? This book is the first to address these challenges in a systematic way. Experiences from eight Western countries, involving more than a dozen surveys, are used to explore difficulties in designing these... Read more

Preface, 1 Introduction: The methodological challenges of surveying populations of immigrant origin, PART I SAMPLING ISSUES, 2 Designing high-quality surveys of ethnic minority groups in the United Kingdom, 3 The 2007 Spanish National Immigrant Survey(ENI1): Sampling from the Padro’n, 4 Enhancing representativeness in highly dynamic settings: Lessons from the NEPIA survey, PART II FIELDWORK AND RESPONSE RATES, 5 The influence of interviewers’ ethnic background in a survey among Surinamese in the Netherlands, 6 Surveying migrants and migrant associations in Stockholm, 7 Comparing the response rates of autochthonous and migrant populations in nominal sampling surveys: The LOCALMULTIDEM study in Madrid, 8 Non-response among immigrants in Denmark, PART III INCLUDING IMMIGRANTS IN GENERAL POPULATION SOCIAL SURVEYS, 9 Immigration and general population surveys in Spain: The CIS surveys, 10 An evaluation of Spanish questions on the 2006 and 2008 US General Social Surveys, 11 Under-representation of foreign minorities in cross-sectional and longitudinal surveys in Switzerland, CONCLUSIONS, 12 Surveying immigrant populations: Methodological strategies, good practices and open questions, List of contributors.