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- Title
INTERVIEWING IN A MEXICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY: AN INVESTIGATION OF SOME POTENTIAL SOURCES OF RESPONSE BIAS.
- Authors
Welch, Susan; Comer, John; Steinman, Michael
- Abstract
The article highlights problems related to the Mexican-American community while interviewing them. Interviewing ethnic minorities may present problems such as potentially high refusal rates owing to suspicion on the part of respondents; language difficulties; obtaining interviewers whose ethnicity and status are congruent with those being interviewed; and an often transient and mobile population. These problems are frequently cited as reasons for the relative absence of survey research on Mexican-Americans. Initial differences between those interviewed in English and Spanish and among those interviewed by an Anglo, a Mexican-American, and an Anglo and a Mexican-American working together disappear with education and age controlled. Regardless of age or education, Mexican-Americans who migrated to the United States after age 16 talk to their priest or minister more than U.S.-born Mexican-Americans and more than Mexican-Americans who migrated to the United States before age 6. With education controlled, only responses to the some question differ significantly.
- Subjects
UNITED States; INTERVIEWING; QUESTIONNAIRES; EMIGRATION &; immigration; UNITED States education system; ETHNIC groups; GROUP identity
- Publication
Public Opinion Quarterly, 1973, Vol 37, Issue 1, p115
- ISSN
0033-362X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1086/268065