TY - JOUR
T1 - Sampling and surveying hard-to-reach populations for demographic research
T2 - A study of female labor migrants in Moscow, Russia
AU - Agadjanian, Victor
AU - Zotova, Natalya
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Because household-based survey designs are notoriously ineffective in studying hard-to-reach groups such as irregular migrants, these groups, however numerically large they may be, are rarely represented in demographic analyses. In this article, we report on the application of a workplace-based stratified probability sampling design (a variant of the time-location sampling approach), response rate, and item-specific refusals in a study of irregular female migrants from Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan working in bazaars, eateries, and small retail outlets in Moscow, Russia. We argue that the workplace-based survey approach, while not flawless, provides a uniquely feasible and cost-effective tool for studying irregular migrants and similar hard-to-reach populations in metropolitan settings.
AB - Because household-based survey designs are notoriously ineffective in studying hard-to-reach groups such as irregular migrants, these groups, however numerically large they may be, are rarely represented in demographic analyses. In this article, we report on the application of a workplace-based stratified probability sampling design (a variant of the time-location sampling approach), response rate, and item-specific refusals in a study of irregular female migrants from Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan working in bazaars, eateries, and small retail outlets in Moscow, Russia. We argue that the workplace-based survey approach, while not flawless, provides a uniquely feasible and cost-effective tool for studying irregular migrants and similar hard-to-reach populations in metropolitan settings.
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U2 - 10.4054/DemRes.2012.26.5
DO - 10.4054/DemRes.2012.26.5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84858275192
SN - 1435-9871
VL - 26
SP - 131
EP - 150
JO - Demographic Research
JF - Demographic Research
ER -