Surveying Hard-to-Reach Groups
ISBN: 978-1-84-855844-1, eISBN: 978-1-84-855845-8
Publication date: 2 November 2009
Abstract
Surveying hard-to-reach groups is difficult but necessary to prevent selection effects and biased sampling. Their diversity makes it difficult to recommend efficient solutions because they bring challenges that are specific to each group. Among these are limited ability in official languages, literacy problems, physical or mental disabilities or the particularities of subgroups such as ethnic, religious and cultural minorities, adolescents and the elderly. Drawing notably on lessons from migration research, this paper reviews the contemporary issues associated with five sets of circumstances that may result in groups being unreached by transport surveys.
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
The authors are grateful to Anne-Marie Dussaix and Martin Lee-Gosselin for their suggestions. This version of the paper was adapted by Martin Lee-Gosselin from a Resource Paper presented at the Annecy Conference, with reference to an original draft in French, and with the editing assistance of Christopher Parker.
Citation
Riandey, B. and Quaglia, M. (2009), "Surveying Hard-to-Reach Groups", Bonnel, P., Lee-Gosselin, M., Zmud, J. and Madre, J.-L. (Ed.) Transport Survey Methods, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 127-144. https://doi.org/10.1108/9781848558458-007
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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