Surveying ethnic minorities and immigrant populations : methodological challenges and research strategies /

Surveying ethnic minorities and immigrant populations : methodological challenges and research strategies /

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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 Weste...

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Other Authors: Font, Joan, Méndez, Mónica
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam University Press, 2013.
Series:IMISCOE research.
Subjects:
Group identity.
Minorities > Social aspects.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The methodological challenges of surveying populations of immigrant origin / Joan Font and Mónica Méndez
  • PART I: SAMPLING ISSUES. Designing high-quality surveys of ethnic minority groupsin the United Kingdom
  • The 2007 Spanish National Immigrant Survey (ENI): Sampling from the Padrón / Ignacio Duque, Carlos Ballano and Carlos Pérez
  • Enhancing representativeness in highly dynamic settings: Lessons from the NEPIA survey / Sebastian Rinken
  • PART II: FIELDWORK AND RESPONSE RATES. The influence of interviewers' ethnic background in a survey among Surinamese in the Netherlands / Anja van Heelsum
  • Surveying migrants and migrant associations in Stockholm / Gunnar Myrberg
  • Comparing the response rates of autochthonous and migrant populations in nominal sampling surveys: The LOCALMULTIDEM study in Madrid / Laura Morales and Virginia Ros
  • Non-response among immigrants in Denmark / Mette Deding, Torben Fridberg and Vibeke Jakobsen
  • PART III: INCLUDING IMMIGRANTS IN GENERAL POPULATION SOCIAL SURVEYS. Immigration and general population surveys in Spain: The CIS surveys / Mónica Méndez, Marisa Ferreras and María Cuesta
  • An evaluation of Spanish questions on the 2006 and 2008 US General Social Surveys / Tom W. Smith
  • Under-representation of foreign minorities in cross-sectional and longitudinal surveys in Switzerland / Oliver Lipps, Francesco Laganà, Alexandre Pollien and Lavinia Gianettoni
  • CONCLUSIONS. Surveying immigrant populations: Methodological strategies, good practices and open questions / Mónica Méndez and Joan Font.

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