Who forgets? An analysis of memory effects in a retrospective survey on migration history.

"This study, focused on modelling memory effects in migration history data, is [based on] a survey conducted in 1988 by the National Institute for Demographic Studies (I.N.E.D.), in collaboration with the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve (U.C.L., Belgium). This data allows insight into the reliability of responses obtained from an autobiographical retrospective survey, and highlights the demographic characteristics that may interact with memory effects in recall of migration history. In addition, the data obtained from this survey allows response reliability comparisons between gender, and also between joint interviewing of spouses and singular interviewing of spouses." 500 couples living in Wallonie, Belgium, and aged between 41 and 54 years were surveyed. (SUMMARY IN FRE)