Scale-Up
Papers from the N-SUM project: the Network Scale-Up Method
- Estimating the Size of Event Populations II (Bernard et al. 1989)
- Estimating the Size of Personal Networks (Killworth et al. 1990)
- Estimating the Size of Event Populations I (Bernard et al. 1991)
- Who Knows Your HIV status? I (Shelley et al. 1995)
- Who Knows Your HIV status? II (Shelley et al. 1995)
- Corroborating the number of HIV/AIDS victims in the U.S. (Johnsen et al 1995)
- Eliciting Representative Samples of Networks (McCarty et al 1997)
- Estimating the incidence of HIV, rape, and homelessness (Killworth et al 1998)
- Estimating Seroprevalence in the U.S. (Killworth et al. 1998)
- Estimating the Ripple Effect of a Disaster (Bernard et al. 2001)
- Two Methods for Estimating Network Size (McCarty et al. 2001)
- Two Interpretations of Reports of Knowledge of Subpopulation Sizes (Killworth et al. 2003)
- The Accuracy of Small World Chains in Social Networks (Killworth et al. 2006)
- Scale-Up Methods as Applied to Estimates of Heroin Use (Kadushin et al. 2006)
- Who Knows Your HIV status II? Information Propagation Within Social Networks of Seropositive People (Shelley et al. 2006)
- Investigating the Variation of Personal Network Size Under Unknown Error Conditions (Killworth et al. 2006)
- Reducing Respondent Burden on Personal Network Measures (Killworth and McCarty 2007)
- Counting hard-to-count populations (Bernard et al. 2010)
Papers and materials that apply or are about or extend the network scale-up method:
- Laga et al. 2021. Thirty Years of The Network Scale-up Method
- Generalizing the network scale-up method: A new estimator for the size of hidden populations (Feehan and Salganik 2016).
- How many people do you know? Efficiently estimating personal network size. (McCormick, Salganik, and Zheng 2010)
- Latent demographic profile estimation in hard-to-reach groups. (McCormick and Zheng 2013)
- How many people do you know in prison? (Zheng, Salganik, and Gelman 2006)
- Conflict deaths in Iraq: A methodological critique of the ORB Survey estimate. (Spagat and Dougherty 2010)
- The game of contacts (Salganik et al. 2011) … … data and code for this paper
- Assessing Scale-up Estimates for HIV/AIDS in Brazil (Salganik et al. 2011)
- Adjusting for recall bias in ‘How many Xs do you know? McCormick and Zheng (2007)
- Combining the randomized response technique and the network scale-up method (Jing et al. 2018)
- Estimating religious populations in China with the network scale-up method (Yang and Yang 2018)
- Estimating the Size of HIV Key Affected Populations in Chongqing, China, Using the Network Scale-Up Method (Guo et al. 2013)
- Fighting a Hydra: A Note on the Network Embeddedness of the War on Terror (Moody 2006)
- Question order and interviewer effects in CATI scale-up surveys (2009) (Snidero et al.)
- Scale-Up Approach in CATI Surveys for Estimating the Number of Foreign Body Injuries in the Aero-digestive Tract in Children. Snidero, Soriani, Baldi, Zobec, Berchialla, and Gregori. (2012)
- Estimating the number of choking events in children in Italy. (Snidero et al. 2007)
- UNAIDS conference on scale-up and other methods for estimating populations from household surveys. (UNAIDS & the US Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator 2012)
- Estimating the number of MSM in Japan. Ezoe et al. (2012)
- Estimating populations in Rwanda through a household survey (Rwanda Biomedical Center et al. 2012)
- Assessing network scale-up estimates for groups most at risk of HIV/AIDS: Evidence from a multiple-method study of heavy drug users in Curitiba, Brazil. (Salganik, Fazito, Bertoni, Abdo, Mello and Bastos) … Appendix to this article … data for this article
- Estimating Population Size Using the Network Scale Up Method. (Maltiel et al. 2013)
- Estimation of the active network size of Kermanian males. (Shokoohi et al. 2010)
- Size estimation of groups at high risk for HIV/AIDS using network scale-up in Kerman, Iran. (Shokooh et al. 2012)
- The application of network scale-up method on estimating the prevalence of some disabilities in the southeast of Iran. (Mohebbi et al. 2014)
- Estimating the sizes of populations at high risk for HIV: A comparison study. (Jing et al. 2014)
- Social network size estimation and determinants in Tehran province residents. (Shati et al. 2014)
- Estimating the annual incidence of abortions in Iran applying a network scale-up approach. (Rastegari et al. 2014)
- Network scale-up correction factors for population size estimation of people who inject drugs and female sex workers in Iran. (Maghsoudi et al. 2014)
- HIV Infection in Ukraine in 2009
Data sets from N-SUM projects:
- Data from the study on populations at high risk for HIV-AIDS. Kiev International Institute of Sociology (2009).
- Codebook for the Ukraine study
- Final report of the Kiev Institute of Sociology on the Ukraine scale-up study
- Data from the Kadushin et al. study of heroin (2006). Please get in touch to request this file.
- Codebook for the Kadushin study
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