Respondent-Driven Sampling: A New Approach to the Study of Hidden Populations
D.D. Heckathorn 1997 Social Problems v. 44, n. 2, p. 174-199.
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. This paper introduces a new variant of chain-referral sampling, respondent-driven sampling, that reduces the biases associated with chain-referral sampling.
Subject: Mathematics:Statistics:Data Collection:Sampling and Survey Issues Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Research Results, Journal Article Research on Learning: Ways Of Learning:Social Networking
