Working paper Understanding Society Working Paper Series

Design and implementation of a high quality probability sample of immigrants and ethnic minorities: lessons learnt

By Peter Lynn, Alita Nandi, Violetta Parutis and Lucinda Platt

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Understanding Society Working Paper Series
Series number
2017-11
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Pages
pp. 1–51
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Abstract

This paper describes the design and implementation of the Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Boost sample incorporated into Wave 6 of Understanding Society. In combination with the remainder of the Understanding Society sample, this provides a nationally representative probability sample of immigrants and ethnic minorities in the UK. We demonstrate that the achieved sample has good coverage properties and we argue that it provides a highly valuable research resource.

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PLEASE CITE AS: Lynn, P., Nandi, A., Parutis, V., and Platt, L. (2018) ‘Design and implementation of a high-quality probability sample of immigrants and ethnic minorities: lessons learnt’, Demographic Research, 38(21):513-548. https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2018.38.21