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June 9, 2010

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar: Respondent-Driven Sampling
Respondent-Driven Sampling

Date

June 9, 2010
12.30 - 13.30

Location

Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
Room 5.2.010
Mohrenstraße 58
10117 Berlin

Elisabeth Liebau, DIW Berlin
Matthias Schonlau, Rand Corporation and DIW Berlin

Abstract
Respondent driven sampling (RDS) is a sampling technique typically employed for hard-to-reach populations (e.g. injecting drug users, men having sex with men, and sex workers).
Briefly, initial seed respondents recruit additional respondents from their network of friends. The recruiting process repeats iteratively, thereby forming long referral chains.
It is crucial to obtain estimates of respondents' network size (e.g. number of friends with the characteristic of interest). RDS shares some similarities with snowball sampling, but the theoretical foundation for inference using RDS samples is much stronger. We will give a brief overview over this technique, studies that have used RDS and some of the challenges they encountered.

The presentation will be in German. 

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