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Brief Report: Respondent-driven Sampling Estimators Under Real and Theoretical Recruitment Conditions of Female Sex Workers in China.
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- Inferring bivariate associations with continuous data from studies using respondent-driven sampling.Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C, Applied statistics · 2025Article
- Analytic Advances in Social Networks and Health in the Twenty-First Century.Journal of health and social behavior · 2022Review
- Using Social Networks to Sample Migrants and Study the Complexity of Contemporary Immigration: An Evaluation Study.Demography · 2022Article
- HIV Prevalence and Associated Risks in a Respondent-Driven Sample of Illicit Stimulant Users in a Southern United States City.AIDS and behavior · 2020Article
- Exploring Mechanisms of Recruitment and Recruitment Cooperation in Respondent Driven Sampling.Journal of official statistics · 2020Article
- Empirical evidence of recruitment bias in a network study of people who inject drugs.The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse · 2019Article
- Identification of Homophily and Preferential Recruitment in Respondent-Driven Sampling.American journal of epidemiology · 2018Article
- Social Network Clustering and the Spread of HIV/AIDS Among Persons Who Inject Drugs in 2 Cities in the Philippines.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2017Article
- NEW SURVEY QUESTIONS AND ESTIMATORS FOR NETWORK CLUSTERING WITH RESPONDENT-DRIVEN SAMPLING DATA.Sociological methodology · 2017Article
- An Immunization Strategy for Hidden Populations.Scientific reports · 2017Article
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Abstract
We compare the performance of multiple respondent-driven sampling estimators under different sample recruitment conditions in hidden populations of female sex workers in the midst of China's ongoing epidemic of sexually transmitted infections. We first examine empirically calibrated simulations grounded in survey data to evaluate the relative performance of each estimator under ideal sampling conditions consistent with respondent-driven sampling assumptions and under conditions that mimic observed respondent-driven sampling recruitment processes. One estimator, which incorporates respondents' reports on their network of contacts, substantially out-performs the others under all conditions. We then apply the estimators to empirical samples of female sex workers collected in two Chinese cities that include unique data on respondents' networks. These empirical results are consistent with the simulation results, suggesting that traditional respondent-driven sampling estimators overestimate the proportion of female sex workers working in low tiers of sex work and are likely to overstate the sexually transmitted infection risk profiles of these populations.
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