Surveying Ethnic Minorities and Immigrant Populations

Surveying Ethnic Minorities and Immigrant Populations Methodological Challenges and Research Strategies - 4 Table of Contents - 6 Preface - 10 1 Introduction: The methodological challenges of surveying populations of immigrant origin - 12 PART I SAMPLING ISSUES - 44 2 Designing high-quality surveys of ethnic minority groups in the United Kingdom - 46 3 The 2007 Spanish National Immigrant Survey(ENI1): Sampling from the Padro´n - 70 4 Enhancing representativeness in highly dynamic settings: Lessons from the NEPIA survey - 86 PART II FIELDWORK AND RESPONSE RATES - 110 5 The influence of interviewers’ ethnic background in a survey among Surinamese in the Netherlands - 112 6 Surveying migrants and migrant associations in Stockholm - 132 7 Comparing the response rates of autochthonous and migrant populations in nominal sampling surveys: The LOCALMULTIDEM study in Madrid - 148 8 Non-response among immigrants in Denmark - 174 PART III INCLUDING IMMIGRANTS IN GENERAL POPULATION SOCIAL SURVEYS - 194 9 Immigration and general population surveys in Spain: The CIS surveys - 196 10 An evaluation of Spanish questions on the 2006 and 2008 US General Social Surveys - 220 11 Under-representation of foreign minorities in cross-sectional and longitudinal surveys in Switzerland - 242 CONCLUSIONS - 270 12 Surveying immigrant populations: Methodological strategies, good practices and open questions - 272 List of contributors - 292