The feasibility of conducting panel surveys with migrant populations

These Methods Note analyzes the feasibility of conducting panel surveys with migrant populations in Latin America, which is characterized by increasingly vulnerable migration flows and complex migration trajectories. Since evidence shows that the migration event is an attrition factor in panel surve...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autores: Bengochea, Julieta, Fernández, Mariana, Montiel, Camila
Tipo de documento: artigo
Data de publicação:2025
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositório:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglês
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:320701
Acesso em linha:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/320701
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1177/019791832513534
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Panel surveys
Migrant populations
Venezuela
Uruguay
Descrição
Resumo:These Methods Note analyzes the feasibility of conducting panel surveys with migrant populations in Latin America, which is characterized by increasingly vulnerable migration flows and complex migration trajectories. Since evidence shows that the migration event is an attrition factor in panel surveys, we reflect on methods to minimize its impact and recommend how other researchers could adopt our applied method. We took three steps to accomplish this. First, we compared the sociodemographic profiles of respondents of Venezuelan origin who participated in the 2018 Ethno-Recent Immigration Survey (ENIR) in Uruguay, focusing on those who were recontacted in the ENIR's second round in 2021 versus those who were not. Second, we conducted a multivariate analysis by estimating logistic regression models to predict the probability of being contacted in the ENIR's second round. Finally, we systematized our observations of which factors enabled participants to be recontacted in the second round, thereby determining strategies to allow future studies to recontact participants. Our results indicate that, in addition to the informants' individual attributes, it is imperative to consider the characteristics of their social networks to facilitate recontact.