Measuring Network Sizes in the Context of Respondent Driven Sampling: Evidence from Two Independent Surveys

• Published in: Survey research methods Vol. 19; no. 1
• Main Authors: Sunghee Lee, Jacob Fisher, Ai Rene Ong, Michael Elliott, Kaidar Nurumov, Jinseok Kim
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: European Survey Research Association 10.04.2025
• Subjects: measurement error; network size measurement; question wording; respondent driven sampling

Social networks are the fundamental premise of respondent driven sampling (RDS). Personal network sizes termed as “degrees” play an important role in the RDS literature, as RDS-specific point estimators incorporate degrees as an adjustment factor approximating the selection probabilities. For this r...