Tracing Long- and Short-term Migrants for Participation in Demographic and Epidemiological Studies: Evidence from Senegal

Mufaro Kanyangarara (1) , Laetitia Douillot (2) , Gilles Pison (3, 4) , Cheikh Ndiaye (5) , Valérie Delaunay (6) , Stéphane Helleringer (1) , Cheikh Tidiane Ndiaye (7)

1 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health [Baltimore]
2 VITROME - Vecteurs - Infections tropicales et méditerranéennes
3 INED - Institut national d'études démographiques
4 EAE - Eco-Anthropologie et Ethnobiologie
5 UCCS - Unité de Catalyse et Chimie du Solide - UMR 8181
6 LPED - Laboratoire Population-Environnement-Développement
7 UNFPA

Migration of participants in demographic and epidemiological studies results in missing data. One approach to reduce resulting losses in statistical power and potential biases is to follow up migrants at their new residence.

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Demography

Mufaro Kanyangarara, Laetitia Douillot, Gilles Pison, Cheikh Ndiaye, Valérie Delaunay, et al.. Tracing Long- and Short-term Migrants for Participation in Demographic and Epidemiological Studies: Evidence from Senegal. Field Methods, 2019, pp.1525822X1987989. ⟨10.1177/1525822X19879892⟩. ⟨hal-02355265⟩