Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/123811 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Working Paper Series No. 2014-25
Publisher: 
University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), Colchester
Abstract: 
Surveying recently arrived immigrants in countries lacking a population register poses many challenges. We describe our adaptation of Respondent Driven Sampling, a chain- referral technique, to sample migrants from Pakistan and Poland who had arrived in the UK within the previous 18 months. Specifically, we discuss issues around connectedness, privacy, clustering, and motivation, central to the implementation of RDS. We outline techniques adopted and evaluate their success. We conclude that RDS is unlikely to be suitable for accessing newly arrived migrants. However, in the absence of registers which can capture populations at point of entry there are no obvious alternatives.
Subjects: 
new immigrants
surveys
RDS
immigrant networks
integration
non-response
JEL: 
F22
J15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size
281.98 kB





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.