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Do open-ended survey questions on migration motives create coder variability problems?

Författare

  • Thomas Niedomysl
  • Bo Malmberg

Summary, in English

Contemporary research on migration has benefi ted from adopting a variety of methodological approaches and different sources of information to provide answers to the ever-recurring question of why people migrate. Yet, when it comes to central methods used for researching migration motives, progress appears to have been slow. This paper focuses on surveys to research migration motives using self-administered postal questionnaires. It addresses a key validity

question, namely the issue of whether the usage of open-ended questions creates coder variability problems. An experimental

research design was used where fi ve coders independently coded 500 randomly selected responses from a large survey on migration

motives. Krippendorff’s a was calculated to test the level of agreement between the coders. The results advance our knowledge in two

important ways: fi rstly, it is shown that coder variability is not a major problem (Krippendorff’s a = 0.82). Secondly, it identifies those types of responses that nevertheless appear problematic to code. The implications of these fi ndings for survey research on migration motives are discussed, and it is argued that open-ended questions have some distinct advantages compared with the more commonly used closed-ended questions.

Publiceringsår

2009

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

79-87

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Population, Space and Place

Volym

15

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc.

Ämne

  • Human Geography

Nyckelord

  • migration motives
  • survey design
  • postal questionnaires
  • content analysis

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1544-8452