Respondent-Driven Sampling: A New Approach to the Study of Hidden Populations
Abstract
A population is “hidden” when no sampling frame exists and public acknowledgment of membership in the population is potentially threatening. Accessing such populations is difficult because standard probability sampling methods produce low response rates and responses that lack candor. Existing procedures for sampling these populations, including snowball and other chain-referral samples, the key-informant approach, and targeted sampling,...
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Title
Respondent-Driven Sampling: A New Approach to the Study of Hidden Populations
Published Date
May 1, 1997
Journal
Volume
44
Issue
2
Pages
174 - 199
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