ghosn_2021_refugee_return

4,084 rated or chosen profiles from 417 respondents, in up to 5 tasks of 2 profiles varying on 4 attributes.

About this table

DescriptionSyrian refugees in Lebanon (face-to-face survey, n=417 in the deposit) chose in up to 5 tasks which of two places in Syria a person like themselves should return to, places varying harm risk on route, chance of lasting peace, number of people known there and ease of finding work; forced choice.
ReferenceGhosn, F., Chu, T. S., Simon, M., Braithwaite, A., Frith, M., & Jandali, J. (2021). The journey home: Violence, anchoring, and refugee decisions to return. American Political Science Review, 115(3), 982-998.
DOI10.1017/S0003055421000344
LicenceCC0 1.0
Source datahttps://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/UGI0MH

Notes

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Size and shape

Respondents417
Rows (one per respondent, task and profile)4,084
Tasks per respondent (most)5
Profiles per task2
Attributes4
Tasks with no profile chosen0

Design

Topicimmigration asylum
A profile representsplace
CountryLB
Language shownar
Language of stored levelsen
Randomization restrictionsunknown
Task orderrecorded in the deposit
Profile positioninferred from row order

Task order or profile position was rebuilt from row order; analyses of position or task order should leave it out.

Outcomes:

choiceI would like you to imagine a person, like yourself, but this person is considering a return to Syria. I would like you to consider the following two places in Syria, where there is currently no fighting taking place and tell me which place in Syria you think this person should go to. [...] Now tell me, which place in Syria would you choose to return to? (translated) [choice, forced]

Columns

attr_chance_of_peaceattr_ease_of_workattr_harm_on_routeattr_people_knownchoicecov_agecov_close_family_lebanoncov_currently_employedcov_didnt_finish_intermediatecov_didnt_finish_primarycov_displacement_yearscov_employed_2011cov_exp_violencecov_gender_codecov_have_childrencov_living_in_campcov_marriedcov_prewar_income_below200cov_registered_unidprofiletask

The layout (one row per respondent, task and profile; choice/rating outcomes; attr_ columns holding each attribute level as displayed) is defined in the IRW conjoint standard. What the outcomes asked is under Design above.

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# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("ghosn_2021_refugee_return", source = "conj")
# Python
pip install irw

import irw
df = irw.fetch("ghosn_2021_refugee_return", source="conj")

How to cite

@article{GHOSN_2021, title={The Journey Home: Violence, Anchoring, and Refugee Decisions to Return}, volume={115}, ISSN={1537-5943}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0003055421000344}, DOI={10.1017/s0003055421000344}, number={3}, journal={American Political Science Review}, publisher={Cambridge University Press (CUP)}, author={GHOSN, FATEN and CHU, TIFFANY S. and SIMON, MIRANDA and BRAITHWAITE, ALEX and FRITH, MICHAEL and JANDALI, JOANNA}, year={2021}, month=May, pages={982–998} }

Version and provenance

IRW versionv584
Redivis datasetirw_conjoint v4.2
Redivis dataset DOI10.57761/qkye-q530
Manifest pin for this IRW versionv4.2
Metadata sourceirw_meta v44.0