TY  - BOOK
AU  - DaVanzo,Julie S.
AU  - Hawes-Dawson,Jennifer
AU  - Valdez,Robert Otto Burciaga
AU  - Vernez,Georges
AU  - Andrews,Christina A.
AU  - Levitan,Barbara A.
AU  - Peterson,Joyce E.
AU  - Schoeni,Robert F.
ED  - Ford Foundation.
ED  - Rand Corporation.
ED  - Program for Research on Immigration Policy (U.S.)
TI  - Surveying immigrant communities: policy imperatives and technical challenges 
SN  - 083301594X
AV  - JV6465 .S87 1994
PY  - 1994///
CY  - Santa Monica, CA
PB  - RAND
KW  - Demographic surveys
KW  - Research
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - United States
KW  - Emigration and immigration
N1  - "Center for Research on Immigration Policy"--Cover; Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-156); Also available on the internet via WWW in PDF format
N2  - 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
UR  - http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR247/
ER  -