Measuring a hidden population: A novel technique to estimate the population size of women with sexual violence-related pregnancies in South Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of Congo

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• 作者：Lisa G. Johnston^a ; Katherine R. McLaughlin^b ; Shada A. Rouhani^c ; ^d ; ^e ; Susan A. Bartels^c ; ^d ; ^f ; ^g ; ^{susanabartels@gmail.com}
• 关键词：Democratic Republic of Congo ; Hidden populations ; pregnancy ; Respondent-driven sampling ; Sexual violence ; Successive sampling-population size estimation
• 刊名：Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：7
• 期：1
• 页码：45-53
• 全文大小：876 K
• 卷排序：7

文摘

Estimating the size of hidden populations often relies on difficult to obtain data. Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is often used to sample hidden populations. RDS collects data on recruitment and social network size. We introduce a method (SS-PSE) to estimate population sizes using RDS data. SS-PSE reduces the cost and effort of estimating the size of hidden populations.