{"title":"The Feasibility of Conducting Panel Surveys With Migrant Populations: The Case of Venezuelans in Uruguay","authors":"Julieta Bengochea, Mariana Fernández, Camila Montiel","doi":"10.1177/01979183251353466","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"These Methods Note analyzes the feasibility of conducting panel surveys with migrant populations in Latin America, which is characterized by increasingly vulnerable migration flows and complex migration trajectories. Since evidence shows that the migration event is an attrition factor in panel surveys, we reflect on methods to minimize its impact and recommend how other researchers could adopt our applied method. We took three steps to accomplish this. First, we compared the sociodemographic profiles of respondents of Venezuelan origin who participated in the 2018 Ethno-Recent Immigration Survey (ENIR) in Uruguay, focusing on those who were recontacted in the ENIR's second round in 2021 versus those who were not. Second, we conducted a multivariate analysis by estimating logistic regression models to predict the probability of being contacted in the ENIR's second round. Finally, we systematized our observations of which factors enabled participants to be recontacted in the second round, thereby determining strategies to allow future studies to recontact participants. Our results indicate that, in addition to the informants’ individual attributes, it is imperative to consider the characteristics of their social networks to facilitate recontact.","PeriodicalId":48229,"journal":{"name":"International Migration Review","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3000,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Migration Review","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183251353466","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"DEMOGRAPHY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
These Methods Note analyzes the feasibility of conducting panel surveys with migrant populations in Latin America, which is characterized by increasingly vulnerable migration flows and complex migration trajectories. Since evidence shows that the migration event is an attrition factor in panel surveys, we reflect on methods to minimize its impact and recommend how other researchers could adopt our applied method. We took three steps to accomplish this. First, we compared the sociodemographic profiles of respondents of Venezuelan origin who participated in the 2018 Ethno-Recent Immigration Survey (ENIR) in Uruguay, focusing on those who were recontacted in the ENIR's second round in 2021 versus those who were not. Second, we conducted a multivariate analysis by estimating logistic regression models to predict the probability of being contacted in the ENIR's second round. Finally, we systematized our observations of which factors enabled participants to be recontacted in the second round, thereby determining strategies to allow future studies to recontact participants. Our results indicate that, in addition to the informants’ individual attributes, it is imperative to consider the characteristics of their social networks to facilitate recontact.
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International Migration Review is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal created to encourage and facilitate the study of all aspects of sociodemographic, historical, economic, political, legislative and international migration. It is internationally regarded as the principal journal in the field facilitating study of international migration, ethnic group relations, and refugee movements. Through an interdisciplinary approach and from an international perspective, IMR provides the single most comprehensive forum devoted exclusively to the analysis and review of international population movements.