Disaster research: surveying displaced populations

Pennell, Beth‐Ellen; Deshmukh, Yashwant; Kelley, Jennifer L.; Maher, Patty; Wagner, James; Tomlin, Dan

doi:10.1017/cbo9781139381635.009

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“…As the accommodation capacity in each camp was changing due to new arrivals, the refugee target population was elusive characterized by high mobility and instability. Thus, time location sampling was implemented according to the recommendations of disaster research (Pennel et al 2014;Mneimneh et al 2014).…”

Section: Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Safety, Health and Trauma among Newly Arrived Refugees in Greece

Stathopoulou

Avrami

Kostaki

et al. 2019

Journal of Refugee Studies

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This study identifies factors that affect safety, health and trauma among refugees and asylum seekers newly arrived and accommodated in Greece. The data of this study was collected from the REHEAL (Refugees’ Healing) project—a population-based survey conducted in six Greek refugee camps during the summer of 2016. We specified two binary logistic-regression models—one for safety and a second for health—as well as a multiple linear-regression model for the trauma score. Safety, health and trauma among refugees appear to be attributable to both pre- and post-displacement factors. The analysis shows that the mental and physical wellbeing of refugees and asylum seekers is strongly affected by post-displacement factors and, more specifically, by exposure to stressors in host countries, such as poor living conditions, limited access to health-care services and uncertainty about the future.

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Section: Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Fourth, although the aim of the survey was clearly stated at the beginning of the fieldwork some respondents might be prone to misconceive its purpose and answer according to a presumably "correct" way, i.e rate their health as good or very good aspiring in a quicker asylum process (Pennel et al 2014).…”

Section: Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Safety, Health and Trauma among Newly Arrived Refugees in Greece

Stathopoulou

Avrami

Kostaki

et al. 2019

Journal of Refugee Studies

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“…All field material (including the consent) was provided in seven languages and acknowledged the particularities and vulnerability of the target population (for example questions that could potentially lead to re-traumatisation were excluded or put into an extra section with a warning, Massey 2014;Pennell et al 2014). German, standard Arabic, English, Farsi/Dari, Kurmanji, Pashto, and Urdu were the languages identified as being spoken most frequently among the refugee population in Germany prior to the survey.…”

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If They Don’t Understand the Question, They Don’t answer. Language Mismatch in Face-to-Face Interviews

Jacobsen

2022

Journal of Official Statistics

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The provision of translated field instruments is a crucial aspect to reduce response burden and subsequently increase data quality in surveys with a multi-linguistic target population such as surveys on recent immigrants. Failure to address this can result in a mismatch between the survey language and the respondent’s mother tongue. By using a survey on refugees in Germany, this article explores the correlation of the absence of the respondents’ mother tongue on item nonresponse – a crucial aspect of data quality. Further, this article investigates whether supplementary audio recordings in the same language as the written questions can reduce item nonresponse when the mother tongue is not available. To answer the research questions, all missing answers per individual are counted and analyzed by means of poisson regression analyses. In a second step, the likelihood of item-nonresponse for single items is estimated as well. Results show that a language mismatch as well as the usage of audio recordings increase item nonresponse.

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