FACTSHEET: Findings and recommendations from the 2023 BiH Hate Crime Underreporting Survey

The 2023 BiH Hate Crime Underreporting Survey sampled 2,438 respondents aged 15 and older from 18 municipalities/cities with consistently high numbers of potential hate crimes recorded by the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina hate crimes database. A nonprobability sampling design was used with quotas based on respondents' ethnoreligious identity, gender, and age. This type of survey design is commonly used in market and opinion research as it is resource and cost efficient. Self-completion interviews were conducted via an online panel and direct recruitment by interviewers from July to October 2023. The non-probability sampling makes it impossible to estimate the likely accuracy of the survey findings since such estimates are based on statistical principles associated with probability, or random, sampling. Nevertheless, given the level of accuracy often produced in practice by surveys of this type, it is possible to consider the survey results as strongly indicative of the experience of the general population in the selected municipalities/cities