Innovative Methods for Obtaining Survey Data from Migrants

描述（由申请人提供）：这是一份探索性/发展性研究拨款（R21）的提案，旨在创建和评估从一个地区的家庭和家庭收集数据的新的和创新的程序，并将这些信息与从该地区迁移到世界其他地方的个人和家庭联系起来。这项研究的动机是由于过去的移徙研究受到许多限制，研究人员无法获得有关移徙者及其目的地社区的信息，并将其与有关其原籍社区和不移徙者的信息联系起来。无法将原籍社区、滞留者和移民联系起来，也威胁到以家庭、婚姻、生育和健康等其他主题为重点的项目的有效性。这项研究将利用国际通信技术（如手机和互联网）的重要创新，创造新的方法，在世界各地的目的地采访移民，长期跟踪移民，并将他们与原籍社区联系起来。这项研究将以尼泊尔的一个长期项目为基础，该项目从1996年至今一直在收集有关社区、家庭和个人的信息。尼泊尔的这个母项目有一个搬家者和留宿者的样本，在尼泊尔的一个有代表性的社区样本中。母项目在2008年采访了居住在这些社区的人，拟议中的项目将采访那些已经搬离这些社区的人。我们将找到并采访尼泊尔和世界其他地方的搬运工。这将构成方法上的重大进步，在同一数据集中包括来自邻居的逗留者和迁入者。我们计划利用广泛的创新方法来采访来自这些社区和家庭的大部分移民。我们将为我们的研究制定程序和工具，使其适合移民个人及其具体目的地的情况。我们将评估数据收集的成功程度，并特别关注响应率和收集数据的质量。我们还将评估我们在移民目的地、他们的个人属性、原籍家庭和社区特征方面的成功差异。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a proposal for an exploratory/developmental research grant (R21) to create and evaluate new and innovative procedures for collecting data from families and households in one area and linking that information to individuals and families who have migrated from that area to other places around the world. This research is motivated by the many limitations placed on past migration research by the inability of researchers to obtain and link information about migrants and their destination communities with information about their origin communities and those who do not move. The inability to link origin communities, stayers, and migrants is also a threat to the validity of projects that focus on other topics such as family, marriage, fertility, and health. This study will take advantage of important innovations in international communication technology-such as cell phones and the internet--to create new ways to interview migrants at destinations around the world, to follow the migrants over time, and to link them to their origin communities. This study will build upon a long-term project in Nepal that has been collecting information about communities, households, and individuals from 1996 to the present. This parent project in Nepal has a sample of movers and stayers in a representative sample of neighborhoods in Nepal. The parent project interviewed people living in these neighborhoods in 2008, and the proposed project will interview those who had moved out of the neighborhoods. We will locate and interview the movers, both in Nepal and elsewhere in the world. This will constitute a significant advance in methods by including in the same data set both stayers and movers from a neighborhood. We plan to utilize a wide range of innovative methods to interview a very large percentage of all migrants from these neighborhoods and households. We will create the procedures and instruments for our research, tailoring them to fit the circumstances of the individual migrants and their specific destination locations. We will evaluate the success of our data collection, with special attention paid to response rates and the quality of the data collected. We will also evaluate differentials in our success across the migrant destinations and across their personal attributes and the characteristics of their origin households and neighborhoods. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This project will take advantage of important innovations in international communication technology and the widespread and increasing availability of cell phones and the internet to interview migrants at destinations anywhere in the world and to follow them over time. Migration is influenced by health and has important implications for the health of both those who choose to migrate and those who choose to remain in the origin communities. This project will permit better understanding of all of these health-related factors.