Surveying Ukrainian Refugees in Europe: Implementation, Methods, Experiments, and Challenges |
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| Coordinator 1 | Dr Jean Philippe Décieux (University of Bonn and Federal Institute of Population Research (BiB)) |
| Coordinator 2 | Ms Silvia Schwanhäuser (Institute for Employment Research) |
Since the start of the war in the Ukraine, many Ukrainians became internally displaced people or sought refuge in the surrounding European countries. According to Eurostat, around 4.3 million war refugees from Ukraine had received protection under the Temporary-Mass-Protection-Directive in Europe at June 2024. Such a massive displacement and inflow of refugees poses a significant challenge for local and national politics, administration and society of the refuge giving regions. Hence, there is a need for appropriate empirical evidence, in order to take efficient actions, grant needed support, and helping effective social integration.
In response to this growing demand, a large number of survey projects have been initiated in Europe. While initially, the focus was on rapid and cost-effective ad-hoc surveys to meet urgent data needs, there has been a notable shift towards the development of more sustainable panel infrastructures and cross-national or comparative studies in recent time. All these projects surveying Ukrainian refugees as hard-to-reach population face special circumstances and conditions. We would like to bring these projects surveying Ukrainian refugees together for an exchange of their experiences and to discuss survey methodological and practical challenges. We particularly encourage submissions that offer a perspective on the following dimensions of survey research:
• Different sampling strategies and approaches
• Comparative perspectives
• Approaches to reach the target population
• Different survey designs and modes
• Questionnaire design and translation
• Fieldwork organization and monitoring
• Attrition, follow-up rules, and experiences in tracing respondents’ return or onward migration
• Innovative tracking techniques for longitudinal designs
• Experimental approaches
• Cross-national comparisons and approaches