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Snowball Sampling: Challenges & Techniques by Leonardo Góes is a document available to read on EtoBox.
This document discusses the challenges of using chain referral (snowball) sampling to locate and study populations with low social visibility, such as ex-heroin addicts. It describes how the researchers overcame initial hurdles in finding untreated ex-addicts to interview for their exploratory study on the natural recovery process from heroin addiction. Treated ex-addicts were easier to locate through treatment program contacts, but untreated individuals required more innovative strategies to start referral
- Author
- Leonardo Góes
- Language
- EN