Annex - The survey in a nutshell

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Annex– The survey in anutshell

The full technica l report and ques tionnaire for the EU-

MIDIS II survey are ava ilable online.98

Selection criteria

EU-MIDIS II respond ents were screened for el igibility

by self-identif‌ication. Grou ps to be surveyed in each of

the countries were selec ted based on multiple criteria,

including the si ze of the target populat ion, feasibility

of carrying out a survey wit h the respective targ et

population, th e group’s risk of experiencing ‘racia lly’,

‘ethnically’ or ‘religiously’ motivated discrimination

and victimisa tion, their vuln erability for b eing at risk

of social exclusion and co mparability with previou s FRA

surveys. Target groups of immi grants and descendants

of immigrants (often referred to as f‌i rst- and second-

generation respondents) were identified by asking

potential respondents about their country of birth and

their parents’ countr y of birth. Clearly def‌ine d countries

and regions of origi n were used for the different groups

covered in each of the countries. To be considered

amember of on e of the target groups of i mmigrants

and descendants of immigrants, respondents either had

to be born in one of the sel ected countries of or igin

(‘f‌irst generation’ ) or one or both of their p arents had

to be from one of these countr ies (‘second generation’).

For purposes of the su rvey, immigrants and d escend-

ants of immigra nts encompass the following:

‘Immigrants’ in clude persons wh o were not born in

an EU Member State or an EE A/EFTA country (Liec h-

tenstein, Iceland, No rway and Switzerlan d), have

their usual place of reside nce in the territory of the EU

Member State where the su rvey was conducted , and

had been living in t he survey country fo r at least the

previous 12 months.

‘Descendants of im migrants’ are pers ons who were

born in one of the cur rent 28 EU Member States or

EEA/EFTA countries, w hose usual place of residence

was in the territor y of the EU Member State where the

survey was conducte d, and who had at least one parent

not born in an EU or EE A/EFTA country (Liechtenstein,

Iceland, Norway a nd Switzerland).

In some EU Member Sta tes, EU-MIDIS II inter viewed

‘recent immigrants’, namely, persons who immigrated

to an EU Member State in the 10 yea rs before the sur-

vey (i.e. after 2004), whose us ual place of residence

is in the territory of t he EU Member State where th e

survey was conducte d, and who had been l iving in

the survey country fo r at least 12 months before the

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interview. The countr y of birth of ‘recent immigran ts’

can be any country other t han the EU-28 and other than

the EEA/EFTA countries.

EU-MIDIS II covered the following groups under the

concept ‘immigrants a nd descendants of immigrants’:

nImmigrants a nd descendants of im migrants from

Turkey (in 6 EU Member States);

nImmigrants a nd descendants of im migrants from

North Africa (in 5 E U Member States);

nImmigrants a nd descendants of im migrants from

Sub-Saharan Africa (in 1 2 EU Member States);

nImmigrants a nd descendants of im migrants from

South Asia and A sia (in 4 EU Member States);

nRecent immigrants f rom other non-EU/EFTA coun-

tries (in 2 EU Member State s).

Data collection

The f‌ieldwork was condu cted by Ipsos MORI, a large

international sur vey company based in the United K ing-

dom, under the su pervision of FR A according to strict

quality control proced ures particip ating in intervi ewer

training sessions and observing data collection activities.

The main intervi ew mode was Computer A ssisted

Personal Interv iew (CAPI)– face-to-face inter views

administered by interviewers using acomputerised

questionnaire. The English source questionnaire, devel-

oped by FRA, was tr anslated into 22 EU la nguages as

well as into Arabic, Kurd ish, Russian, Somali, Tamazight

and Turkish. Intervi ewers were specially trained for the

survey, including cult ural and ethical trainin g. Wherever

possible or necessa ry, interviewers with the same eth-

nic background and/or gender conducted the interviews

to increase responsiveness a mong the target groups.

Sampling

Most of the target grou ps in EU-MIDIS II can be consid-

ered as ‘hard-to-reach’ for survey research– in terms of

being relatively smal l in size and/or dispersed– and due

the absence of sampl ing frames of the ta rget groups.

Whenever possible, a sample was drawn fro m asam-

pling frame covering th e target populatio n. However,

the opportu nities to sample th e target populati on dif-

fered greatly across Member St ates due to different

availability of s ampling fram es and distribu tion of the

target group in the cou ntries (i.e. list of persons that can