EUMAGINE project paper 7: survey report

Report

This EUMAGINE project paper is a report on the questionnaire fieldwork in Morocco, Turkey, Senegal and the Ukraine. Drawing on fieldwork reports, this paper presents an overview of the fieldwork and sampling procedures, noting problems encountered and divergences from the general guidelines. It also presents response rates. The challenges that research teams faced varied across countries and research areas. This variation is closely related to cultural factors such as levels of social trust, family structure and life rhythm.

The paper finishes by discussing data cleaning procedures and explaining how the survey weights were calculated. This paper will be of use to researchers planning to use the EUMAGINE dataset and readers wanting to learn more about the challenging of survey research in the EUMAGINE target countries.

Authors: Ersanilli, E

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Not peer reviewed
• Publication date: 2012-01-01
• Edition: Updated Publisher's version
• Language: English
• Keywords: survey; data collection; migration; developing countries
• Subjects: Social Sciences; Migration