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Activity Number:
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62
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Type:
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Invited
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Date/Time:
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Monday, August 12, 2002 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
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Sponsor:
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Social Statistics Section*
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| Abstract - #300308 |
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Title:
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Designing the Language Dimension of the New Immigrant Survey
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Author(s):
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Guillermina Jasso*+
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Affiliation(s):
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New York University
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Address:
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269 Mercer Street, New York, New York, 10003, USA
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Abstract:
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A key feature of the New Immigrant Survey (NIS)--the first large-scale longitudinal study of representative samples of new legal immigrants to the United States--is that respondents will be interviewed in the language of their choice. Implementing this feature, while at the same time maximizing response rate and safeguarding data quality, poses formidable challenges of both a substantive and a practical nature. This paper discusses those challenges and the procedures designed to meet them. The first set of challenges involves predicting the native and preferred language(s) of sampled immigrants; prediction equations will be based on characteristics in the immigrant record (including age, sex, occupation, visa class) and estimated using information from the NIS Pilot. The second set of challenges involves translation of the instruments and preparation of bilingual interviewers.
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