Ethnic Minority British Election Study pilot

自2010年以来，还没有一项专门针对英国快速增长的少数民族人口的政治和社会态度的代表性调查。现有的具有代表性的少数民族样本的社会科学调查总是缺乏空间来询问许多关键的政治态度问题（例如了解社会）或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）和英国选举研究互联网小组，尽管包括大量少数族裔受访者，在很大程度上不代表少数民族。在这段时间里，有三次大选和两次公投（欧盟和苏格兰）重塑了整个英国的政治。还有一些对少数族裔特别重要的重大政治事件，包括黑人生命也是物质的抗议活动，经历全球新冠肺炎大流行的种族差异，以及温德鲁什丑闻。尽管如此，我们对少数民族如何应对过去十年的重大政治事件以及英国少数民族人口长期存在的问题（如政治代表性不足和投票登记不足）的变化知之甚少。简而言之，在英国政治历史的关键时期，我们在了解少数民族如何看待和理解政治方面存在巨大的数据差距，更具体地说，是政治不平等和排斥。造成这些数据差距的主要原因是，为获得具有代表性的少数民族样本，需要进行困难和昂贵的程序。调查少数群体人口这一本已十分昂贵和困难的任务，因目前的流行病而进一步复杂化，直接阻碍了面对面的调查研究。由于所有调查都在努力应对这一流行病，包括英国选举研究在内的许多调查都采用了推到网络的方法，继续对英国普通民众进行调查，并发现这种方法基本上是成功的。这项建议是一项试验性研究，以研究英国选举研究在大流行中采用的调查技术-推到网络的方法-能否成功地用于调查少数族裔。这些方法是否以及如何能够成功使用的问题的答案提出了这样一种可能性，即这些方法可以在其他情况下和其他时候使用，而不会发生大流行病，作为对少数群体人口进行高质量、物有所值的代表性调查的一种方式。英国选举研究所使用的推到网络的方法通常更便宜，因为它限制了工作人员的时间，因为第一次与抽样地址的联系是通过邮件完成的，而面试本身是在网上进行的。鉴于在线进行访谈的额外好处，例如减少社会残疾偏见，随机化和引入调查实验的能力，如果成功招募新的少数民族代表性样本，这种方法将改变少数民族民意调查的游戏规则。

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.