<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The use of personal names for screening is an increasingly popular sampling technique for migrant populations. Although this is often an effective sampling procedure, very little is known about the properties of this method. Based on a large German survey, this article compares characteristics of respondents whose names have been correctly classified as belonging to a migrant population with respondentswho aremigrants and whose names have not been classified as belonging to a migrant population. Although significant differences were found for some variables even with some large effect sizes, the overall bias introduced by name-based sampling (NBS) is small as long as procedures with small false-negative rates are employed.</p></abstract>

The use of personal names for screening is an increasingly popular sampling technique for migrant populations. Although this is often an effective sampling procedure, very little is known about the properties of this method. Based on a large German survey, this article compares characteristics of respondents whose names have been correctly classified as belonging to a migrant population with respondentswho aremigrants and whose names have not been classified as belonging to a migrant population. Although significant differences were found for some variables even with some large effect sizes, the overall bias introduced by name-based sampling (NBS) is small as long as procedures with small false-negative rates are employed.

A Study of Assimilation Bias in Name-Based Sampling of Migrants

University of Duisburg-Essen, Methodology Research Unit. Lotharstr. 65, 47057 Duisburg, Germany.

Institute for Employment Research, Regensburger Str. 104, 90478 Nuremberg, Germany and University of Bamberg, Germany

University of Duisburg-Essen, Methodology Research Unit, Lotharstr. 65, 47057 Duisburg, Germany.

Journal of Official Statistics

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The use of personal names for screening is an increasingly popular sampling technique for migrant populations. Although this is often an effective sampling...

A Study of Assimilation Bias in Name-Based Sampling of Migrants

Published Online: May 08, 2014

Page range: 231 - 249

Received: Feb 01, 2013

Accepted: Nov 01, 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jos-2014-0015

Keywords
Hard-to-Reach populations, sampling, undercoverage, onomastic sampling

© by Rainer Schnell

This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

A Study of Assimilation Bias in Name-Based Sampling of Migrants

Published Online: May 08, 2014

Page range: 231 - 249

Received: Feb 01, 2013

Accepted: Nov 01, 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jos-2014-0015

KeywordsHard-to-Reach populations, sampling, undercoverage, onomastic sampling

© by Rainer Schnell

This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Keywords
Hard-to-Reach populations, sampling, undercoverage, onomastic sampling