Surveying immigrant communities :  policy imperatives and technical challenges / 
Julie DaVanzo ... [et al.]. 
 - xxii, 156 pages :  illustrations ;  28 cm 
<br/><br/> "Center for Research on Immigration Policy"--Cover. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-156). 
<br/><br/> To assess the feasibility of a large-scale survey of immigrants, the authors conducted a pilot study, the Los Angeles Community Survey of Salvadorans and Filipinos, in 1991. The results are encouraging: The survey was able to obtain useful information from eleven-year-old census data to target high-concentration sample areas; it successfully recruited and trained bilingual staff; it enlisted respondents' cooperation at acceptable rates; and it elicited responses to sensitive questions, including immigration status, that are critical for developing and assessing policy. The authors conclude that costs for a similar survey conducted in selected sites across the country, though substantial, would be low compared with the potential costs that immigration may impose, or even with the costs of programs intended to address immigration issues. Appendixes contain the survey materials. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>083301594X 
<br/><br/><label>Standard Tech. Report. No.: </label>RAND/MR-247-FF 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label> $15.00 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>94038284 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Demographic surveys--Research.<br/>Immigrants--Research--United States.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Emigration and immigration--Research.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JV6465  / .S87 1994