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Second European Union Minorities and Discrimination Survey (EU-MIDIS II), 2016

GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA6703 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.13514
Abstract: The second European Union Minorities and Discrimination Survey (EU-MIDIS II) was conducted in 2016 by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) as a follow-up to the first survey on minorities´ and immigrants´ experiences of discrimination and criminal victimisation conducted by the Agency in 2008. The EU-MIDIS II survey collected information from 25,515 respondents from different ethnic minority and migrant backgrounds, including Roma, in all EU Member States (2016: EU-28 including the UK). The EU-MIDIS II sample is representative of the selected populations that were interviewed ... more
Content: 1. Household information and child grid: number of persons living in the household; age; sex; employment situation; form of employment (full-time, part-time); year of migration; number of citizenships; respondent has the citizenship of the survey country; other country citizenship(s); year in which country citizenship was obtained; highest level of ... more

Methodology

Date(s) of Data Collection: 24.09.2015 - 14.09.2016
Date(s) of Data Collection: 24.09.2015 - 14.09.2016, Varies from country to country; overall duration
Geographic coverage: Austria (AT) | Belgium (BE) | Bulgaria (BG) | Cyprus (CY) | Czech Republic (CZ) | Germany (DE) | Denmark (DK) | Estonia (EE) | Greece (GR) | Spain (ES) | Finland (FI) | France (FR) | Croatia (HR) | Hungary (HU) | Ireland (IE) | Italy (IT) | Lithuania (LT) | Luxembourg (LU) | Latvia (LV) | Malta (MT) | Netherlands (NL) | Poland (PL) | Portugal (PT) ... more
Universe: The survey interviewed people aged 16 and older: - who describe themselves as having an ethnic minority background; this includes Roma and people from the Russian minority; - who describe themselves as having an immigrant background; this includes immigrants and descendants of immigrants; - whose usual place of residence is in the EU Member State ... more
Number of Units: 77656 household members, including 25515 respondents
Sampling Procedure: • Probability: Multistage • Probability: Simple random • Non-probability: Quota • Mixed probability and non-probability; Most of the target groups in EU-MIDIS II can be considered as ‘hard-to-reach’ for survey research – in terms of being relatively small in size and/or dispersed – and due the absence of sampling frames of the target groups ... more
Temporal Research Design: Cross-section
Analysis Unit: Individual
Mode of Data Collection: • Face-to-face interview: Computer-assisted (CAPI/CAMI); The main interview mode for EU-MIDIS II was Computer Assisted Personal Interview (CAPI) – that is, face-to-face interviews administered by interviewers using a computerised questionnaire.
Data Collector: Ipsos MORI, United Kingdom
Analysis System(s): SPSS, Stata
Kind of Data: Numeric
Number of Variables: 1283
Notes: Weighting: The survey results are based on weighted data to reflect the selection probabilities of each household and individual based on the sampling design. The weights also account for the differences in the (estimated) size of the target population in each of the countries. Where possible, the sample was post-stratified to the regional distrib ... more

Bibliographic information

Principal Investigator/ Authoring Entity, Institution: - European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), Vienna, Austria
Publication year: 2020
DOI: 10.4232/1.13514
Study number: ZA6703
Contributor, Institution, Role: Latcheva, Rossalina - Fair and Equal Societies, Research and Data Unit, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights - ProjectManager
Publisher: GESIS Data Archive

Versions

Current Version: 1.0.0, 2020-07-29, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.13514
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Reference publications

Publications: FRA (European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights) (2017), Second European Union Minorities and Discrimination Survey - Main results, Luxembourg, Publications Office of the European Union (Publications Office). Available at: https://fra.europa.eu/en/publication/2017/eumidis-ii-main-results | FRA (European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights) (2017 ... more
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European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), Vienna, Austria (2020). Second European Union Minorities and Discrimination Survey (EU-MIDIS II), 2016. GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA6703 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.13514.

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