Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- List of contributors
- PART I INTRODUCTION
- PART II POLITICS: SOURCES OF REGIME SUPPORT
- PART III WORK: ECONOMIC/DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS
- PART IV LIFE: SOCIAL STATUS, ETHNIC RELATIONS, AND MOBILIZED PARTICIPATION
- Appendix A The SIP General Survey sample
- Appendix B Response effects in SIP's General Survey of Soviet emigrants
- Glossary
- General bibliography of Soviet Interview Project publications
- Index
Appendix A - The SIP General Survey sample
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 March 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- List of contributors
- PART I INTRODUCTION
- PART II POLITICS: SOURCES OF REGIME SUPPORT
- PART III WORK: ECONOMIC/DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS
- PART IV LIFE: SOCIAL STATUS, ETHNIC RELATIONS, AND MOBILIZED PARTICIPATION
- Appendix A The SIP General Survey sample
- Appendix B Response effects in SIP's General Survey of Soviet emigrants
- Glossary
- General bibliography of Soviet Interview Project publications
- Index
Summary
The respondents to the General Survey of the Soviet Interview Project are former Soviet citizens who immigrated to the United States. Surveys of Soviet emigrants have relied on a variety of sampling techniques. Some have used snowball samples in which early respondents to the survey help to recruit later respondents. Others have used quota samples in which a priori target numbers of respondents with certain specified combinations of characteristics are established, and the sampling stops when the targeted number of interviews is completed.
SIP General Survey I used a stratified random sample, based on the characteristics of the emigrants when they lived in the Soviet Union. Individual respondents were selected from a list that contained information about all eligible persons, defined by explicit eligibility criteria. The probability that given individuals were selected depended on the educational, regional, nationality, and city-size strata in which they fell. An effort was made to complete an interview with every selected individual. This method of sampling is less susceptible to self-selection by the respondents into the survey than snowball sampling or quota sampling, and it permits greater control over sample composition.
This appendix describes how the SIP General Survey I sampling frame and sample were defined. It analyzes the response rates and describes the basic demographic characteristics of the sample. And it discusses the issue of representativeness of the respondents: To what referent Soviet population can the results of the survey be generalized?
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- Politics, Work, and Daily Life in the USSRA Survey of Former Soviet Citizens, pp. 354 - 371Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1987
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