Background There is little evidence on which strategies are effective in recruiting minority
groups in low-budget health surveys. We evaluated different recruitment strategies for their …

Background Some populations targeted in survey research can be hard to reach, either
because of lack of contact information, or non-existent databases to inform sampling. Here …

Germany is the second most common country of immigration after the US. However, people
with own or familial history of migration are not represented proportionately to the population …

Background: Francophones who live outside the primarily French-speaking province of
Quebec, Canada, risk being excluded from research by lack of a sampling frame. We …

Aims: This paper examines the importance of recruitment site in relation to the recruitment of
ethnic minorities into health research. It presents a synthesis of experiences drawn from six …

Objectives Response rates in epidemiologic studies vary widely. This study examines
response rates of potential study participants according to foreign versus German …

▪ Abstract Our ability, as leaders in public health scholarship and practice, to achieve and
measure progress in addressing racial/ethnic disparities in health status and health care is …

This chapter discusses issues to do with carrying out a quantitative survey with a
representative sample of ethnic minority groups in Britain. This may be a targeted survey …

Reaching and recruiting representative samples of minority populations is often challenging.
This study examined in Chinese and Korean Americans: 1) whether using two different …

BackgroundAchieving good response rates to population surveys from hard to reach groups
in deprived areas can be challenging. AimTo explore and compare different approaches to …