2017
DOI: 10.1080/1369183x.2017.1394178
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Strategies for origin-based surveying of international migrants

Abstract: This paper addresses methodological challenges of investigations of international migration, including difficulties in obtaining information about representative samples of migrants and both their origin and destination location. Our project used an origin-based sample with a destination focused survey and interviewed 91% of migrants from a community in Nepal to any destination and shares techniques employed. Our procedures and high response rate constitute a significant improvement in survey methods that perm… Show more

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“…First, GERPS relies on an origin-based sampling design (cf. Ghimire et al 2019) to sample this rare and hard-to-reach population. It reverses usual procedures for setting up samples of international migrants: Whereas international migrants are traditionally sampled in their countries of destination, this new approach samples the internationally mobile population in their country of origin.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…First, GERPS relies on an origin-based sampling design (cf. Ghimire et al 2019) to sample this rare and hard-to-reach population. It reverses usual procedures for setting up samples of international migrants: Whereas international migrants are traditionally sampled in their countries of destination, this new approach samples the internationally mobile population in their country of origin.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Those who moved internationally, prior to June 2011, were reinterviewed twice after their migration. The domestic and international migrant interviews were undertaken by phone or in person at their destination or in Chitwan if they returned shortly (Ghimire et al 2017). Attrition in the whole CVFS was very low, and even with migrants, the response rate was 91 percent at the final follow-up interview (Ghimire et al 2017).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Despite rather large changes in destinations, much of this migration is still short-term, labor-oriented, and undertaken by individuals who remit money to their families remaining in Nepal (Bhandari 2016). Migration of whole households is less common, and family reunification is not possible on employment visas to the Persian Gulf and several Asian countries (Bhandari 2016; Ghimire et al 2017).…”
Section: Settingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We constructed our expected wage variable for each individual for each possible residential location based on the individual's education. The education-and location-specific wages were estimated from the actual reported earnings of a sample of Nepalis who had already migrated from the Chitwan Valley in 2008 (Ghimire et al 2017). For each destination category, we estimated the median earnings for each level of education of Nepali migrants in that destination and then smoothed the earnings estimates to ensure a monotonic increase by education within each region.…”
Section: Model Estimationmentioning
confidence: 99%