International Seminar: Livia Elisa Ortensi: Reaching hard-to-reach migrant populations using different methodologies

DATE

07/11/2018

Household-based survey designs are notoriously ineffective in studying hard-to-reach populations. The presentation will focus on lessons learned from more than 15 years of field surveys on migrants and similarly hard to reach populations carried out using alternative field methods. Three different methods to overcome the lack of sampling frames will be presented. Finally, we will discuss an adaptation of the Capture-Recapture Sampling to estimate the number of street-based sex-workers in Milan using data collected by NGOs assisting sex workers through mobile units. Read more and register here