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Survey Research among Middle Eastern Immigrant Groups in the United States: Iranians in Los Angeles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

Mehdi Bozorgmehr  and
Georges Sabagh
Mehdi Bozorgmehr
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology; von Gruncbaum Center for Near Eastern Studies University of California, Los Angeles
Georges Sabagh
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology; von Gruncbaum Center for Near Eastern Studies University of California, Los Angeles
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Immigration research poses special problems, but survey researchers studying immigrant groups rarely write about the problems they encounter in the design and conduct of their surveys (Hurh and Kim 1984). Three areas of particular importance are: (1) securing the approval of community leaders or persons of influence; (2) identifying adequate frames for relatively small immigrant populations, from which random samples can be selected; and (3) conducting the fieldwork, including recruiting and training interviewers fluent in immigrant languages.

The main objective of this paper is to describe various stages of our recently completed survey of Iranians in Los Angeles (see Figure 1). We pay particular attention to the problems we have faced in carrying out this study, and how resolving some of them reshaped our original research design.

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Research Article
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Review of Middle East Studies , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , July 1989 , pp. 23 - 34
Copyright
Copyright © Middle East Studies Association of North America 1989

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