Sampling immigrants in the Netherlands and Germany

Salentin, Kurt; Schmeets, Hans

doi:10.1186/s40878-017-0062-2

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“…While Japanese addressing system (Universal Postal Union 2021) differs, for example, greatly from the German one, other countries might not even have fully implemented addressing systems (Universal Postal Union 2012). Finally, and on a minor note, it is worth mentioning that using German population registers for sampling is generally a rather complex exercise binding substantial resources (Salentin and Schmeets 2017); consequently, it might not always be a feasible option for research projects with limited funds. Despite these limitations, GERPS showed that German population registers can, especially with regard to European target countries, be used to achieve high-quality probability-based samples of individuals who registered their emigration with the authorities in recent months prior to the sampling for a given project.…”

Section: Another Origin-based Strategy Has Recently Been Employed By the German Emigration And Remigrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Realizing a Global Survey of Emigrants through Facebook and Instagram

Pötzschke¹,

Weiß²

2021

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Research on international migrants has seen a sharp increase during the last decades, yet sampling them remains a major challenge, especially in a cross-national setting and on a global scale. While various sampling methods are established in the field, most of them cannot easily be implemented globally due to their dependence on specific administrative or infrastructure elements or simply their costs. Since Social Networking Sites (SNS) operate on a global scale, they provide a sampling frame that can be utilized for the targeted recruitment of migrants worldwide. Increasingly used for research purposes and among the largest and most popular SNSs are Facebook and Instagram. In our project GEOOS (German Emigrants Overseas Online Survey), we utilize paid advertisements on these networks to target German emigrants, particularly Germans living outside of Europe. Our research aims to ascertain whether such ads could be used to recruit a nonprobability (migrant) sample on a global scale. More specifically, we are interested in the success of this approach concerning three performance indicators: Cost efficiency, coverage, and sample size. Our advertisement campaign ran for 18 days and resulted in total costs of about 2,223 Euro. This investment led a total of 3,895 individuals to complete the survey; of those, 98 percent belonged to the target population, meaning they were (a) either born in Germany or held German citizenship and (b) did not live in Germany. GEOOS participants lived in a total of 148 countries and territories around the globe. Similar to findings reported in previous studies on this target population, the largest sub-groups resided in predominantly Anglo-phone countries; however, taken together, participants in these countries only constitute 38 percent of our overall sample, with nearly a quarter of GEOOS participants (n = 867) living in Middle and South America, 862 residing in Asian countries, and 476 in Africa. Furthermore, a considerable share of our sample is constituted by individuals who would either not have been included in a sampling frame based on German population registers or who would have been unlikely to be reached through this method due to incomplete or outdated information.

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Section: Another Origin-based Strategy Has Recently Been Employed By the German Emigration And Remigrationmentioning

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Realizing a Global Survey of Emigrants through Facebook and Instagram

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2021

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“…In the second stage, target persons are randomly drawn, according to proportional age and sex strata, through the residents registries (Einwohnermeldeämter) within these municipalities. Since Germany has a federal administrative system, in contrast to other European countries, no central residents registry exists [4]. Every municipality therefore needs to be contacted separately.…”

Section: Sampling Strategiesmentioning

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“…Migration has increased since the Second World War, for several reasons. Whereas the recruitment of migrant "guest workers" in the 1950s, and the resulting family reunifications in the 1970s, and European Union enlargement in the 2000s were primarily work oriented, numerous conflicts and wars have led to an increase of refugees coming to Germany, especially since the 2000s [2][3][4]. The group of PMB in Germany can be described as very heterogeneous, due to differences in the phases of influx, migration background, or specific life circumstances.…”

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Interventions to Increase the Reachability of Migrants in Germany With Health Interview Surveys: Mixed-Mode Feasibility Study

Zeisler¹,

Bilgic²,

Schumann³

et al. 2020

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Background Germany is a popular destination for immigrants, and migration has increased in recent years. It is therefore important to collect reliable data on migrants’ health. The Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany, has launched the Improving Health Monitoring in Migrant Populations (IMIRA) project to sustainably integrate migrant populations into health monitoring in Germany. Objective One of IMIRA’s objectives is to implement a feasibility study (the IMIRA survey) that focuses on testing various interventions to increase the reachability of migrants with health interview surveys. Possible causes of nonresponse should be identified so as to increase participation in future surveys. Methods The survey target populations were Turkish, Polish, Romanian, Syrian, and Croatian migrants, who represent the biggest migrant groups living in Germany. We used probability sampling, using data from the registration offices in 2 states (Berlin and Brandenburg); we randomly selected 9068 persons by nationality in 7 sample points. We applied age (3 categories: 18-44, 45-64, and ≥65 years) and sex strata. Modes and methods used to test their usability were culturally sensitive materials, online questionnaires, telephone interviews, personal contact, and personal interviews, using multilingual materials and interviewers. To evaluate the effectiveness of the interventions, we used an intervention group (group A) and a control group (group B). There were also focus groups with the interviewers to get more information about the participants’ motivation. We used the European Health Interview Survey, with additional instruments on religious affiliation, experience of discrimination, and subjective social status. We evaluated results according to their final contact result (disposition code). Results We collected data from January to May 2018 in Berlin and Brandenburg, Germany. The survey had an overall response rate of 15.88% (1190/7494). However, final disposition codes varied greatly with regard to citizenship. In addition to the quantitative results, interviewers reported in the focus groups a “feeling of connectedness” to the participants due to the multilingual interventions. The interviewers were particularly positive about the home visits, because “if you are standing at the front door, you will be let in for sure.” Conclusions The IMIRA survey appraised the usability of mixed-mode or mixed-method approaches among migrant groups with a probability sample in 2 German states. When conducting the survey, we were confronted with issues regarding the translation of the questionnaire, as well as the validity of some instruments in the survey languages. A major result was that personal face-to-face contact was the most effective intervention to recruit our participants. We will implement the findings in the upcoming health monitoring study at the Robert Koch Institute.

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“…I focus on the Netherlands for three reasons. First, the Netherlands is a country with a significant proportion of persons with a migrant background 1 (Salentin and Schmeets 2017) and where immigrants are often considered to hold a disadvantaged position in the housing market (OECD 2015). Second, there is growing evidence that taste-based and statistical discrimination do take place in the Netherlands in the private renting sector but also mong mortgage lenders (Aalbers 2007;Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau 2009; De Groene Amsterdammer 2018).…”

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Immigrants’ earnings and neighbourhood economic wealth: the conditioning role of citizenship

Leclerc

2021

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Do higher earnings translate into better living conditions for immigrants? While spatial assimilation theory argues that residential patterns reflect economic assimilation, place stratification theory states that immigrants face structural obstacles in their search for better housing, including housing market discrimination. Existing scholarship does not facilitate distinguishing between these contrasting perspectives as analyses typically compare across immigrant groups and natives. By contrast, we focus in this paper on legal status discrimination within the immigrant population in the Netherlands, by testing whether citizenship acquisition provides a positive signal towards housing market actors and moderates the effect of income on residential mobility. We analyse this relation using administrative microdata and using fixed-effects models to control for selection into naturalisation due to unobserved time-invariant heterogeneity. We find that the relation between income gains and immigrants' propensity to live in wealthier neighbourhoods is stronger for naturalised immigrants. These results corroborate the place stratification argument and suggest that naturalisation may help reduce nationality based discrimination.

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Sampling immigrants in the Netherlands and Germany

Cited by 16 publications

References 14 publications

Realizing a Global Survey of Emigrants through Facebook and Instagram

Realizing a Global Survey of Emigrants through Facebook and Instagram

Interventions to Increase the Reachability of Migrants in Germany With Health Interview Surveys: Mixed-Mode Feasibility Study

Immigrants’ earnings and neighbourhood economic wealth: the conditioning role of citizenship

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