Sample Recovery in longitudinal Studies with Adolescents using Social Networks: the ILSEG Study
Abstract
Panel studies which consist in following the changes produced over time in a specific population by following the same sample of this population at various stages in their life, stumble with a special difficulty: that is, the risk of losing a large number of the subjects which were part of the initial sample in each of the follow-up stages.
The paper which follows examines this situation in relation to longitudinal studies with adolescents and young people. It exposes the original way adopted by ILSEG (spanish acronym of the Longitudinal Study of the Second Generation) to face this problem, resorting to the possibilities offered by social networks such as Facebook and Tuenti. The chapter thus considers the theoretical, methodological and practical possibilities offered by internet for tracking and contacting known informants. In fact, without the help of the social networks in internet, ILSEG would only have been able to recuperate 44% of its initial sample of children of immigrants. After recurring to internet, it was able to trace and to interview 73% of the sample, an amply satisfactory number in this kind of studies.
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