Respondent-Driven Sampling for Surveying Ethnic Minorities in Ecuador

In this work, we consider the problem of surveying a population of young Indigenous, Montubios and Afro-Ecuadorians to study their living conditions and socioeconomic issues. We conducted a Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) survey in the canton of Riobamba, Ecuador. RDS is a network-based sampling me...

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Published in:Sustainability 2020-11, Vol.12 (21), p.9102
Main Authors: Mullo, Héctor, Sánchez-Borrego, Ismael, Pasadas-del-Amo, Sara
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Access to education
Confidence intervals
Education
Households
Housing
Living conditions
Minority & ethnic groups
Native peoples
Polls & surveys
Populations
Poverty
Privacy
Questionnaires
Sampling
Sampling methods
Seeds
Social exclusion
Social networks
Socioeconomic factors
Surveying
Sustainability
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Summary:In this work, we consider the problem of surveying a population of young Indigenous, Montubios and Afro-Ecuadorians to study their living conditions and socioeconomic issues. We conducted a Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) survey in the canton of Riobamba, Ecuador. RDS is a network-based sampling method intended to survey hidden or hard-to-reach populations. We have obtained RDS estimates and confidence intervals of these characteristics. We have illustrated and discussed some of the assumptions of the method using some available diagnostic tools. Our results suggest that RDS is an effective methodology for studying social and economic issues of this ethnic minority in Ecuador. This technique is relatively easy to implement and has the potential to be applied to survey other hidden populations in other settings.
ISSN:2071-1050
2071-1050
DOI:10.3390/su12219102