Hard-to-survey populations / edited by Roger Tourangeau ...[et al.]
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.Description: xxv, 648 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781107031357 (hardback)
- 9781107628717 (paperback)
- 001.433 TOU 22
- HB849.49 .H367 2014
- PSY030000
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: Part I. Introduction: 1. Defining hard-to-survey populations; 2. Hard-to-survey populations in comparative perspective; 3. Measuring undercounts for hard-to-survey groups; 4. Counting and estimating hard-to-survey populations in the 2011 census; 5. A review of quality issues associated with studying hard-to-survey populations; Part II. Conducting Surveys in Difficult Settings: 6. Disaster research: surveying displaced populations; 7. Conducting surveys in areas of armed conflict; 8. Interviewing in disaster-affected areas: lessons learned from post-Katrina surveys of New Orleans residents; 9. Reaching and enumerating homeless populations; 10. 'Where are our costumes?': The all Ireland traveller health study - Our Geels 2007-2011; Part III. Conducting Surveys with Special Populations: 11. Representing the populations: what general social surveys can learn from surveys among specific groups; 12. Surveying cultural and linguistic minorities; 13. Challenges to surveying immigrants; 14. Ethnographic evaluations on coverage of hard-to-count minorities in U.S. decennial censuses; 15. Methodological and ethical issues arising in carrying out research with children and young people; 16. Challenges in the first ever national survey of people with intellectual disabilities; 17. Conducting research on vulnerable and stigmatized populations; 18. Surveying political extremists; Part IV. Sampling Strategies for the Hard-to-Survey: 19. Probability sampling methods for hard-to-sample populations; 20. Recent developments of sampling hard-to-reach populations: an assessment; 21. Indirect sampling for hard-to-reach populations; 22. Sampling the Maori population using proxy screening, the electoral roll, and disproportionate sampling in the New Zealand health survey; 23. Network-based methods for accessing hard-to-survey populations using standard surveys; 24. Link-tracing and respondent-driven sampling; Part V. Data Collection Strategies for the Hard-to-Survey: 25. Use of paid media to encourage 2010 census participation among the hard-to-count; 26. The hard-to-reach among the poor in Europe: lessons from Eurostat's EU-SILC survey in Belgium; 27. Tailored and targeted designs for hard-to-survey populations; 28. Standardization and meaning in the survey of linguistically diversified populations: insights from the ethnographic observation of linguistic minorities in 2010 census interviews; 29. Mobilizing hard-to-survey populations to participate fully in censuses and surveys; 30. Finding the hard-to-reach and keeping them engaged in research.
This book provides the systematic examination of the populations and settings that present unusual challenges, from Irish travelers to natural disasters, discussing methods to overcome these difficulties.
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