Surveying Migrant Households: A Comparison of Census-Based, Snowball and Intercept Point Surveys

New representative surveys of households of migrants exist, limiting our ability to study the effects of international migration on sending families. We report the results of an experiment that was designed to compare the performance of three alternative survey methods in collecting data from Japane...

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Main Authors:	McKenzie, David J., Mistiaen, Johan
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Survey Methods Sampling Methods C830 International Migration F220 Remittances F240 Demographic Trends and Forecasts General Migration J110 Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development O120
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4763

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spelling	okr-10986-47632021-04-23T14:02:19Z Surveying Migrant Households: A Comparison of Census-Based, Snowball and Intercept Point Surveys McKenzie, David J. Mistiaen, Johan Survey Methods Sampling Methods C830 International Migration F220 Remittances F240 Demographic Trends and Forecasts General Migration J110 Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development O120 New representative surveys of households of migrants exist, limiting our ability to study the effects of international migration on sending families. We report the results of an experiment that was designed to compare the performance of three alternative survey methods in collecting data from Japanese-Brazilian families, many of whom send migrants to Japan. The three surveys that were conducted were households selected randomly from a door-to-door listing using the Brazilian census to select census blocks, a snowball survey using Nikkei community groups to select the seeds and an intercept point survey that was collected at Nikkei community gatherings, ethnic grocery stores, sports clubs, and other locations where family members of migrants are likely to congregate. We analyse how closely well-designed snowball and intercept point surveys can approach the much more expensive census-based method in terms of giving information on the characteristics of migrants, the level of remittances received and the incidence and determinants of return migration. 2012-03-30T07:29:37Z 2012-03-30T07:29:37Z 2009 Journal Article Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society) 09641998 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4763 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article Brazil Japan
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description	New representative surveys of households of migrants exist, limiting our ability to study the effects of international migration on sending families. We report the results of an experiment that was designed to compare the performance of three alternative survey methods in collecting data from Japanese-Brazilian families, many of whom send migrants to Japan. The three surveys that were conducted were households selected randomly from a door-to-door listing using the Brazilian census to select census blocks, a snowball survey using Nikkei community groups to select the seeds and an intercept point survey that was collected at Nikkei community gatherings, ethnic grocery stores, sports clubs, and other locations where family members of migrants are likely to congregate. We analyse how closely well-designed snowball and intercept point surveys can approach the much more expensive census-based method in terms of giving information on the characteristics of migrants, the level of remittances received and the incidence and determinants of return migration.
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author	McKenzie, David J. Mistiaen, Johan
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title	Surveying Migrant Households: A Comparison of Census-Based, Snowball and Intercept Point Surveys
title_short	Surveying Migrant Households: A Comparison of Census-Based, Snowball and Intercept Point Surveys
title_full	Surveying Migrant Households: A Comparison of Census-Based, Snowball and Intercept Point Surveys
title_fullStr	Surveying Migrant Households: A Comparison of Census-Based, Snowball and Intercept Point Surveys
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Surveying Migrant Households: A Comparison of Census-Based, Snowball and Intercept Point Surveys

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