This review focuses on recent methodological and technological developments in survey
data collection. Surveys are facing unprecedented challenges from both societal and …

Respondent-driven sampling is a commonly used method for sampling from hard-to-reach
human populations connected by an underlying social network of relations. Beginning with a …

Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is a widely used method for sampling from hard-to-
reach human populations, especially populations at higher risk for human immunodeficiency …

Surveys provide a critical source of data for scholars, yet declining response rates are
threatening the quality of data being collected. This threat is particularly acute among …

Web surveys can be conducted relatively fast and at relatively low cost. However, Web
surveys are often conducted with nonprobability samples and, therefore, a major concern is …

Objectives Precarious employment (PE) is a determinant of poor health and health
inequality. However, the evidence of health consequences and mechanisms underlying the …

Producing statistically robust profiles of small or 'hard-to-reach'populations has always been
a challenge for researchers. Since surveying the wider population in order to capture a large …

Background: Technology has changed the way men who have sex with men (MSM) seek
sex and socialize, which may impact the implementation of respondent-driven sampling …

Background Web-based respondent-driven sampling is a novel sampling method for the
recruitment of participants for generating population estimates, studying social network …

Italy has experienced a new wave of population outflows, in particular since the end of the
2000s, with France as one of the top destinations. This paper investigates the structural and …