Sampling Recently Arrived Immigrants in the UK: Exploring the effectiveness of Respondent Driven Sampling

Tom Frere-Smith (), Renee Luthra () and Lucinda Platt ()
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Tom Frere-Smith: Ipsos MORI
Renee Luthra: University of Essex
Lucinda Platt: London School of Economics and Political Science

No 1432, RF Berlin - CReAM Discussion Paper Series from Rockwool Foundation Berlin (RF Berlin) - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM)

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.

Keywords: new immigrants; surveys; RDS; immigrant networks; integration; non-response (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 J15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-08
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