A validation of the ethnosurvey: the case of Mexico-U.S. migration.
This article evaluates the validity of the ethnosurvey as a method of demographic data collection by analyzing the representativeness of the Mexican Migration Project (MMP) as a source of information on Mexico-U.S. migration. After briefly delineating the philosophy, structure, and organization of...
| Published in: | International Migration Review Vol. 34; no. 3; pp. 766 - 794 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Fall2000
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