Aim of the pretest:
Question 14 was asked only of those who had indicated in question 11 that they had family members abroad. As with question 13, the aim of the pretest was to find out whether the answer options were unambiguous and disjunctive, i.e. not overlapping. To this end, those test-persons who had selected at least one type of support were asked to elaborate on their answer(s).
Findings:
Slightly more than half of the respondents (58.7%) indicated that they had not been supported by family members abroad in the past twelve months (see Table 17). The most frequently mentioned forms of support received by the remaining respondents were "emotional support" (16 mentions), "sending or transferring money" (13 mentions), and "support in other ways" (10 mentions).
In most cases, respondents’ answers to the cognitive follow-up questions matched their selected responses:
As with question 13, it was noticeable that some respondents who had selected both the "...supported me in other ways" response option and one or more of the other options did not address in their explanations the "other ways" in which they were supported by their relatives. They referred exclusively to the more "specific" response options in their explanations, leaving it unclear what they meant by "...supported me in other ways."
