Sampling international migrants with origin-based snowballing method:: New evidence on biases and limitations.

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...

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Main Authors: Cris Beauchemin, Amparo González-Ferrier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research 2011-07-01
Series:Demographic Research
Online Access:http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol25/3/