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Surveying Migrant Households: A Comparison of Census-Based, Snowball, and Intercept Point Surveys
McKenzie, David Mckenzie; Mistiaen, Johan Andre - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Few representative surveys of households of migrants exist, limiting our ability to study the effects of international … migration on sending families. We report the results of an experiment designed to compare the performance of three alternative … survey methods in collecting data from Japanese-Brazilian families, many of whom send migrants to Japan. The three surveys …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703202
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Surveying migrant households: a comparison of census-based, snowball, and intercept point surveys
McKenzie, David; Mistiaen, Johan - 2007
Few representative surveys of households of migrants exist, limiting our ability to study the effects of international … migration on sending families. We report the results of an experiment designed to compare the performance of three alternative … survey methods in collecting data from Japanese-Brazilian families, many of whom send migrants to Japan. The three surveys …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275883
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Fertility Levels, Trends and Differentials in Pakistan: Evidence from the Population, Labour Force and Migration Survey 1979-80
Alam, Iqbal; Mohammad, Irfan; Farooqi, Naseem Iqbal; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1983
"Population, Labour Force and Migration" (PLM) Survey of 1979; and (2) to compare its findings, wherever necessary, with those of … PFS (particularly for current fertility) and other surveys. The report is organized into eight sections, Section 2 is a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113019
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Should We Track Migrant Households When Collecting Household Panel Data? Household Relocation, Economic Mobility and Attrition Biases in the Rural Philippines
Fuwa, Nobuhiko - 2011
Based on household panel data that tracked migrant households (with an additional survey cost of 17 percent), this article describes behavior of household relocation and quantifies the extent of attrition biases in estimating the determinants of per capita household consumption and of its growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130279
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Do Reticent Managers Lie During Firm Surveys?
Clarke, George R. G. - 2012
Previous studies have shown that reticent managers, who are identified through a series of random-response questions, answer questions about corruption, firm performance and how honest they are differently from other managers. If reticent managers' answers are different because they are lying,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108537
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A Comparison of CAPI and PAPI Through a Randomized Field Experiment
Caeyers, Bet - 2015
This paper reports on a randomized survey experiment among 1840 households, designed to compare pen-and-paper interviewing (PAPI) to computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI). We find that PAPI data contain a large number of errors, which can be avoided in CAPI. We show that error counts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038283
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Singapore : Still an Expatriates World?
Gupta, Ritu - 2010
Singapore is one of the most unique countries in the world, with the smallest area per sq meter and almost no local population, it is a country inhabited by people from all over the world and they constitute the total population of Singapore. It is unique because despite its size and the fact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146806
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Surveying Migrant Households : A Comparison of Census-Based, Snowball, and Intercept Point Surveys
McKenzie, David J.; Mistiaen, Johan A. - 2021
Few representative surveys of households of migrants exist, limiting our ability to study the effects of international … migration on sending families. We report the results of an experiment designed to compare the performance of three alternative … survey methods in collecting data from Japanese-Brazilian families, many of whom send migrants to Japan. The three surveys …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316697
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Do reticent managers lie during firm surveys?
Clarke, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Previous studies have shown that reticent managers, who are identified through a series of random-response questions, answer questions about corruption, firm performance and how honest they are differently from other managers. If reticent managers’ answers are different because they are lying,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260647
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Lying about firm performance: Evidence from a survey in Nigeria
Clarke, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
during firm surveys. The most common concern is that managers might under-report performance to avoid attracting attention …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009386720