Studying Migrant Workers Using the Network Scale-up Method

Music City Center 

The Network Scale-up Method (NSUM) is a survey-based method to estimate the size of hard-to-reach populations. NSUM relies on questions of the form, "How many [X]'s do you know?" collected from the general population, where [X] refers to any subpopulation of interest. In this work, we estimate the number of migrant workers in Jordan at the governorate level using a NSUM survey. The traditional NSUM survey is supplemented with an additional survey from migrant workers, enabling us to better understand the social dynamics of this population. Results are compared to official records from the government of Jordan.