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Gibbs, Jeremy J.; Traube, Dorian E.; Goldbach, Jeremy T. – Field Methods, 2022
Because of the high cost, venue-based probability sampling of young men who have sex with men (YMSM) is largely inaccessible to social researchers. The aim of this study is to compare the feasibility of implementing geosocial networking application-based (GSNA) and venue-based probability sampling of young men who have sex with men. A…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Males, Homosexuality, Feasibility Studies
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Antoun, Christopher; Zhang, Chan; Conrad, Frederick G.; Schober, Michael F. – Field Methods, 2016
The rise of social media websites (e.g., Facebook) and online services such as Google AdWords and Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) offers new opportunities for researchers to recruit study participants. Although researchers have started to use these emerging methods, little is known about how they perform in terms of cost efficiency and, more…
Descriptors: Social Media, Web Sites, Recruitment, Users (Information)
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Moosa, Sheena; Koopman-Boyden, Peggy – Field Methods, 2016
Representing isolated small island communities through social survey research continues to be challenging. We examine a locally developed method to reach and recruit older people (65+ years) for a survey on well-being in the small island developing state of Maldives. The use of messengers to recruit participants is examined in the context of these…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Social Science Research, Recruitment, Participant Characteristics