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JOURNAL OF IMMIGRANT AND MINORITY HEALTH
Volume 23, Issue 4, Pages 784-792Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10903-020-01077-4
Keywords
Respondent driven sampling; Health surveys; Asian Americans; Immigrants
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- National Science Foundation [SES-1461470]
- National Institute on Aging [1-R01 AG060936-01, 1-R21 AG062844-01]
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RDS may be a cost-effective tool for recruiting recent immigrants, but recruitment noncooperation poses operational challenges, leaving RDS yet to be a reliable methodology.
This study examined feasibility and methodological utilities of respondent driven sampling (RDS) for Korean immigrants. We conducted the Health and Life Study of Koreans (HLSK), a Web-based RDS study targeting foreign-born Korean Americans. Through chain referrals, n = 638 participated. Geographic coverage and estimates of HLSK were compared to foreignborn Korean samples in the American Community Survey and the California Health Interview Survey as benchmarks. Compared to the benchmarks, HLSK fared well on the geographic coverage, household type and size, employment and health insurance but over-captured those who were younger, more recent immigrants, with higher education and with disability. Existing RDS-specific estimators were largely ineffective. Conclusions. RDS may serve as a cost-effective tool for recruiting recent immigrants, a harder-to-recruit subgroup within minorities. However, recruitment noncooperation posed operational challenges, a critical gap in the literature. This leaves RDS yet to be a reliable methodology.
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