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Abstract #302461

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Activity Number: 174
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Monday, August 8, 2005 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Survey Research Methods
Abstract - #302461
Title: Interview Format and Sampling Strategies in Human Rights Data Collection: Experiences and Results from East Timor and Sierra Leone
Author(s): Patrick Ball and Romesh Silva*+
Companies: The Benetech Initiative
Address: 480 S. California Ave., Suite 201, Palo Alto, CA, 94306,
Keywords: human rights ; interviews ; convenience samples ; multiple systems ; households
Abstract:

Assessing the magnitude and patterns of human rights violations has been done by many methods, most frequently via convenience samples of qualitative interviews. In recent work in East Timor and Sierra Leone, parallel projects were conducted to measure past human rights abuses. This paper presents comparative results from three sets of estimates: (i) qualitative interviews collected via convenience samples, (ii) household probability surveys using structured questionnaires, and (iii) multiple systems estimates using the combined, matched datasets.

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