The Feasibility of Conducting Panel Surveys with Migrant Populations: The Case of Venezuelans in Uruguay

Julieta Bengochea , Universidad de la República
Mariana Fernandez Soto, Universidad de la Republica
Camila Montiel, Universidad de la República

This paper analyzes the feasibility of conducting panel surveys with migrant populations in the Latin American region, characterized by increasingly vulnerable migration flows and complex migration trajectories. Since the migration event is an attrition factor in panel surveys, we make some methodological reflections on minimizing its degree and recommendations on how our applied method could be widely adopted. To this end, we made three steps. First, we analyzed the sociodemographic profiles of the participants of Venezuelan origin who participated in the Ethno-Recent Immigration Survey (ENIR) held in 2018 in Uruguay and were recontacted and agreed to participate in the second round of the ENIR held in 2021. Second, we carried out descriptive bivariate analysis and multivariate analysis by estimating logistic regression models that seek to predict the probability of being contacted in the second round of the ENIR. Finally, we systematized a set of observations made during the fieldwork that ensured the recontact and implementation of the second round and other actions taken to be able to recontact them in the future.

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 Presented in Session P3. Migration, Economics, Policies, History