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5 Issues and Innovations in Population Data Collection and Measurement: Survey Research
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are based on multimethod data collection and the mixing of qualitative and quantitative survey information. Although these studies have not focused specifically on forced migration, the method ologies are nevertheless relevant.
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The number of older men exceeded the number of older women, most likely because older women have an easier time of migrating for family reunification, for health reasons, and to help migrant families with children. The data indicate that the population in Eritrea is getting less educated and child mortality is going up, probably because the overall population is getting poorer as a consequence of outmigration.
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TABLE 5-1 Benefits and Drawbacks of Probability Samples of Forced Migrants SOURCE: Workshop presentation by Jon Pedersen, May 21, 2019.
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In Amman, an adaptive stratified sample was adopted to take account of the 2004 census data without totally committing to it. Outside Amman, the adaptive cluster sample assumed that, because of the lower density of Iraqis, it was more likely that they would have moved, even though maps suggested clustering.
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As an example, adaptive sampling techniques work fine in simulations, although whether they work in practice is difficult to say THE MEXICAN AND LATIN AMERICAN MIGRATION PROJECTS Karen Pren (Princeton University) , current director of the Mexican Migration Project (MMP)
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. It is a multimethod data collection that mixes qualitative and quantitative survey information (see Figure 5-1)
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For example, while migrants from Central America go mainly to the United States, migrants from South America tend to go to many locations. FIGURE 5-2 The ethnosurvey consists of three steps to produce information at the level of the individual.
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and Mexican policies. Though it is not focused specifically on forced migration, Pren noted, the methodology has worked for many years, and the same methodology is now being applied in other countries, including Germany, Poland, China, and Bangladesh.1 During the general discussion, Pren indicated that the MMP and LAMP work through personal contacts, including friends, acquaintances, and family, to trace where people go.
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Survey fieldwork in sending and even in receiving countries also faces enormous challenges to interviewer safety. Staveteig added that data collection is heavily intertwined with analysis, and what social scientists can feasibly study and how they choose to study it is closely tied to what they can produce.
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The data are reviewed again when sent to Princeton University and compared with other data sources to detect any problems. During the wrap-up session at the end of the first day of the workshop, planning committee cochair Ellen Percy Kraly provided a recap of some of the key emergent issues in forced migration research (see Box 5-1)
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•• The need for analytic attention to issues of protracted displacement and extended exile. •• The impact of the location and geography of forced migrants on the capacity for data collection and analysis.
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•• The importance of the 2020–2021 round of censuses for forced migration research, particularly in relationship to the establishment of sampling frames for representative survey research.
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