A Sensitivity Analysis of Repeat Migration Attrition in the Study of Migrant Adjustment

The Case of Bangkok

Bibliographic Data

ID10967786
AuthorsXiushi Yang (Old Dominion University, corresponding author)
Year1994
Volume31
Issue4
Pages585-592
Publication date1994-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDemography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0070-3370 • E-ISSN: 1533-7790
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/2061792
PMID7890093
OpenAlexW2090001705
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited20

Studies of migrant adjustment often conclude that results apply only to remaining migrants. This paper examines the potential bias in using the difference between remaining migrants and natives as a measure of migrant adjustment. The results document that differences between remaining migrants and natives contain bias caused by attrition due to repeat migration. Such bias is small, however, and is unlikely to change migrant-native comparisons. Unless one is concerned with details of differences between migrants and natives, it is unnecessary to be concerned about migration attrition bias in drawing conclusions from the observed differences

Attrition · Demographic economics · Economics · Gender bias · Geography · Selection bias · Sociology · Statistics · Demography · Mathematics · Medicine · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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