Survey sampling is critical to get right but can be daunting. We attended a webinar on Sampling Respondents in Migration Surveys: challenges and trade-offs, co-hosted by @IOM_GMDAC and #MIGNEX at @ODIdev. Thread https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👇" title="Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten" aria-label="Emoji: Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten"> https://www.mignex.org/news/sampling-respondents-migration-surveys-challenges-and-trade-offs">https://www.mignex.org/news/samp...

The panellists drew reflections from their experiences on the woes of designing sampling strategies for surveys on #migration and how to best address them. Migrants have a tendency to move so that makes data collection difficult and tricky.

With migrants moving, underlying population changes and attrition follows. This gives rise to:

(i) Challenges associated with designing sampling frames due to reasons such as lack of population data to interview. And whatever data is available could be outdated and inaccurate.

(ii) Challenges associated w/ selection of respondents within households due to reasons such as lack of listed households, respondents’ reluctance to participate, unavailability of respondents, gender norms preventing enumerators from interviewing respondents of the opposite sex.

Alternatives that were suggested: planned random walks and careful checks of what is feasible and comparable across areas. Adaptation of GIS technology and satellite maps to identify population clusters.

More from @j_hagenzanker in this blog - https://www.odi.org/blogs/17402-migration-survey-sampling-pragmatic-how-guide?utm_content=bufferc4880&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer">https://www.odi.org/blogs/174...

A huge shout out to the hosts, moderator @jorgencarling, and panellists for this informative webinar @JasperTjaden @j_hagenzanker @Prof_Teye @cbatista_econ