Innovative Methods for Obtaining Survey Data from Migrants

描述(由申请人提供)：这是一项探索性/发展研究补助金(R21)的建议，旨在创建和评估从一个地区的家庭和家庭收集数据并将这些信息与从该地区移民到世界其他地方的个人和家庭联系起来的新的和创新的程序。这项研究的动机是，过去的移徙研究受到许多限制，因为研究人员无法获得关于移徙者及其目的地社区的信息，并将其与关于其原籍社区和没有迁徙的人的信息联系起来。无法将原籍社区、居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的重要创新--如手机和互联网--创造新的方式，在世界各地的目的地采访移民，随着时间的推移跟踪移民，并将他们与原籍社区联系起来。这项研究将建立在尼泊尔的一个长期项目的基础上，该项目从1996年到现在一直在收集关于社区、家庭和个人的信息。尼泊尔的这个母公司项目在尼泊尔具有代表性的社区样本中有搬家和留宿的样本。母项目在2008年采访了居住在这些社区的人，拟议的项目将采访那些搬出社区的人。我们将在尼泊尔和世界其他地方找到并采访搬家的人。这将是方法上的一大进步，因为它将一个社区的留守人员和搬家人员都包括在同一个数据集中。我们计划利用广泛的创新方法采访来自这些社区和家庭的很大比例的移民。我们将为我们的研究创建程序和工具，根据移民个人的情况和他们特定的目的地进行调整。我们将评估我们数据收集的成功程度，并特别注意答复率和所收集数据的质量。我们还将评估我们在移民目的地、他们的个人属性以及他们的原籍、家庭和社区的特点方面的成功差异。 公共卫生相关性：该项目将利用国际通信技术的重要创新以及手机和互联网的普及和普及，在世界任何地方采访移民，并对他们进行长期跟踪。移徙受健康的影响，对选择迁徙的人和选择留在原籍社区的人的健康都有重要影响。该项目将使人们能够更好地了解所有这些与健康有关的因素。

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.