Assessing quality in qualitative research

Discrimination is one of the few subjects for which it is possible to compare the subjective assessment of its extent with an objective measure of the racial or gender penalty the individual faces. In this paper we balance standard measures of discrimination on the labor market to the subjective feelings expressed by individuals about the discrimination they have experienced. We use a large French survey done in 2008 on migrants, second generations and natives. .We found a strong and positive correlation between these two measures. This tends to prove that questions on the way people feel treated can be considered as reliable information on the actual level of discrimination.