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http://hdl.handle.net/10261/93160
10.4054/DemRes.2011.25.3
232307
Sampling international migrants with origin-based snowballing method. New evidence on biases and limitations
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
2011
artículo
González Ferrer, Amparo
rp10701
Beauchemin, Cris
González Ferrer, Amparo [0000-0002-6492-6641]
Transnational Surveys
MAFE
Senegal
Snowballing
International Migrants
2011
This paper provides a methodological assessment of the advantages and drawbacks of the origin-based snowballing technique as a reliable method to construct representative samples of international migrants in destination areas. Using data from the MAFE-Senegal Project, our results indicate that this is a very risky method in terms of quantitative success. Besides, it implies some clear selection biases: it overrepresents migrants more strongly connected to their home country, and it tends to overestimate both poverty in households at origin and the influence of previous migration experiences of social networks on individuals’ out-migration.
European Commission
Demographic Research 25: article 3