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Abstract #304520

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Activity Number:	392
Type:	Topic Contributed
Date/Time:	Wednesday, August 10, 2005 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor:	Section on Survey Research Methods
Abstract - #304520
Title:	Sampling Issues in National HIV Behavioral Surveillance of Injecting Drug Users
Author(s):	Michael Monsour*+ and Lillian S. Lin and Myron Katzoff and Steven Thompson
Companies:	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Center for Health Statistics and Simon Fraser University
Address:	DHAP/NCHSTP, Atlanta, GA, 30333, United States
Keywords:	respondent-driven sampling ; sample survey ; hard-to-reach population ; injecting drug users ; HIV ; surveillance
Abstract:	The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is about to begin National HIV Behavioral Surveillance (NHBS) of the injecting drug user (IDU) population at 25 sites. Sampling of this hard-to-locate population can be facilitated through the use of adaptive sampling procedures such as respondent-driven sampling or snowball sampling. This paper will describe an adaptive web design as a modification to those designs of the strict random walk or snowball type. The adaptive web design has the advantage of enabling the direct use of the information that will be derived from the formative assessments to be conducted at the sites and selection of interview subjects based on the characteristics of seeds (or, to use a graph-theoretic term, originating nodes). It also will provide for effective constraints on sample size.

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