Abstract:We test the effectiveness of a link-tracing sampling approach, Network Sampling with Memory (NSM) to recruit samples of rare immigrant populations with an application among Chinese immigrants in the Raleigh-Durham Area of North Carolina. NSM uses the population network revealed by data from the survey to improve the efficiency of link-tracing sampling, and has been shown to substantially reduce design effects in simulated sampling. Our goals are: (1) to show that it is possible to recruit a probability sample… Show more
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