Ethnic Minority British Election Study pilot

自2010年以来，在英国快速增长的少数民族人口中，没有一项关于政治和社会态度的代表性调查。具有代表性的少数族裔样本的现有社会科学调查总是缺乏空间来提出许多关键的政治态度问题(例如，了解社会)，或者少数群体的子样本太少，无法进行详细分析(例如，英国社会态度和英国选举研究)，而英国选举研究互联网小组，尽管包括了大量少数族裔受访者，但基本上没有少数群体的代表性。在此期间，英国举行了三次大选和两次全民公投(欧盟和苏格兰)，重塑了整个英国的政治。还发生了对少数群体特别重要的重大政治事件，包括黑人生命也是命的抗议活动、在经历全球Covid大流行过程中的种族差距以及Windrush丑闻。尽管如此，我们对少数族裔对过去十年的重大政治事件做出了怎样的反应，或者英国少数民族人口长期存在的问题，如政治代表性不足和登记不足的投票情况发生了怎样的变化，知之甚少。简而言之，在英国政治史的关键时期，我们在理解少数族裔对政治的普遍看法和理解，以及更具体地说的政治不平等和排斥方面，存在巨大的数据差距。这些数据差距主要是由于实现具有代表性的少数族裔样本所需的困难和昂贵的过程造成的。这项本已昂贵和困难的调查少数族裔人口的任务因持续的大流行而进一步恶化，这直接阻碍了面对面的调查研究。由于所有调查都难以应对疫情，包括英国选举研究在内的许多调查已经转向使用推送到网络的方法来继续调查英国普通民众，并发现这种方法基本上是成功的。这项建议是为了进行一项试点研究，以研究英国选举研究在大流行中采用的调查技术-推送到网络方法-是否可以成功地应用于对少数族裔的调查。能否以及如何成功地利用这些工具的答案增加了这样一种可能性，即这些工具可以在其他情况下和在其他时间，在不发生流行病的情况下，作为提供高质量、物有所值的少数群体代表性调查的一种方式。英国选举研究使用的Push-to-Web方式通常更便宜，因为它限制了工作人员的时间，因为第一次接触样本地址是通过邮件进行的，面试本身也是在网上进行的。鉴于网上进行访问的其他好处，例如减少社会残疾偏见、随机化和引入调查实验，如果成功招募具有代表性的少数族裔新样本，这种方法将改变调查少数族裔民意的游戏规则。

Since 2010 there has not been a single representative survey dedicated to political and social attitudes fielded among the UK's fast-growing ethnic minority population. Existing social science surveys with representative ethnic minority samples invariably lack space to ask many crucial political attitudes questions (e.g. Understanding Society) or have too small a sub-sample of minorities for detailed analysis (e.g. British Social Attitudes and the British Election Study), and the British Election Study Internet Panel, despite including a large number of ethnic minority respondents, is largely unrepresentative of minorities. In that time there have been three General Elections, and two referendums (EU and Scottish) that have reshaped politics across Britain. There have also been huge political events which have particular importance to minorities including the Black Lives Matter protests, racial disparities in experiencing the global Covid pandemic, and the Windrush scandal. Nonetheless, we know relatively little about how minorities have reacted to the huge political events of the last decade or how long-standing issues for ethnic minority populations in Britain such as political under-representation and under-registration to vote have changed. In short, in a crucial period of British political history, we have enormous data gaps in understanding how minorities perceive and understand politics broadly, and political inequality and exclusion more specifically. These data gaps are caused predominantly by the difficult and expensive processes needed to achieve a representative sample of ethnic minorities. This already expensive and difficult task of surveying minority populations is further compounded by the ongoing pandemic, which directly prevents face to face survey research. As all surveys struggle to respond to the pandemic, many, including the British Election Study have moved to use a push-to-web approach to continue surveying the general British population and has found this approach largely successful. This proposal is for a pilot study to study whether the surveying techniques adopted by the British Election Study in the pandemic - push-to-web methods - can be successfully deployed in surveying ethnic minorities. The answer to whether and how these can be successfully used raises the possibility that these can be employed in other contexts and at other times, without a pandemic, as a way to deliver high quality value-for-money representative surveys of minority populations. The push-to-web approach-as used by the British Election Study-is generally cheaper as it limits staff time as first contact with sampled addresses is done by mail and the interview itself is conducted online. Given the additional benefits of conducting the interview online, such as reducing social disability bias, ability to randomise and introduce survey experiments, if successful in recruiting a new representative sample of ethnic minorities this approach would be a game changer for surveying ethnic minority public opinion.