Applying Respondent Driven Sampling to Migrant Populations

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Introduction

   • Lisa G. Johnston, Guri Tyldum

   Pages 1-8

3. Sampling Migrants: How Respondent Driven Sampling Works

   • Lisa G. Johnston

   Pages 9-16

4. RDS and the Structure of Migrant Populations

   • Jon Horgen Friberg, Cindy Horst

   Pages 17-26

5. Measuring Personal Network Size in RDS

   • Lisa G. Johnston, Leila Rodriguez, Joanna Napierala

   Pages 27-36

6. Initiation of the RDS Recruitment Process: Seed Selection and Role

   • Agnieszka Kubal, Inna Shvab, Anna Wojtynska

   Pages 37-48

7. Deciding on and Distributing Incentives in RDS

   • Guri Tyldum, Leila Rodriguesz, Ingunn Bjørkhaug, Anna Wojtynska

   Pages 49-61

8. Formative Assessment, Data Collection and Parallel Monitoring for RDS Fieldwork

   • Jane Montealegre, Antje Röder, Rojan Ezzati

   Pages 62-83

9. Analyzing Data in RDS

   • Lisa G. Johnston, Renee Luthra

   Pages 84-100

10. Back Matter

    Pages 101-126

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This book gives a thorough introduction to the theoretical and practical aspects of planning, conducting and analysing data from Respondent Driven Sampling surveys, drawing on the experiences of experts in the field as well as pioneers that have applied Respondent Driven Sampling methodology to migrant populations.

• assessment
• development
• estimator
• methodology
• migrants
• monitoring
• planning

"Respondent driven sampling (RDS) has come a long way since the days of snowball sampling and offers an important new tool for social scientists seeking to study small, rare, and hard-to-find populations. In their book, Guri Tyldum and Lisa G. Johnston offer a definitive guide showing migration researchers to make optimal use of RDS methodologies. Drawing on their incisive understanding of RDS in theory and their extensive experience using RDS in practice they have produced a concise, clear, and eminently readable book that will be of great interest to migration researchers everywhere." - Prof. Douglas S. Massey, Princeton University, United States

"This book is a must-read for researchers planning respondent-driven sampling studies of migrant populations. It covers the entire research process from start to finish and is packed with practical advice that is not available elsewhere." - Prof. Matthew Salganic, Princeton University, United States

• Fafo Institute for Applied International Studies, Norway

  Guri Tyldum

• Tulane University, USA

  Lisa G. Johnston

• University of California, USA

  Lisa G. Johnston

Jon Horgen Friberg, Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research, Norway Cindy Horst, Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway Leila Rodriguez, University of Cincinnati, USA Joanna Napierala, University of Warsaw, Poland Agnieszka Kubal, University of Oxford, UK Anna Wojtynska, University of Iceland Inna Schvab, International Charitable Foundation, Ukraine Ingunn Bjørkhaug, Fafo Institute for Applied International Studies, Norway Jane Montealegre, Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, USA Antje Röder, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Renee Luthra, University of Essex, UK

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