Survey methods for estimating the size of weak-tie personal networks

DM Feehan, V Hai Son… - Sociological …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Researchers increasingly use aggregate relational data to learn about the size and
distribution of survey respondents' weak-tie personal networks. Aggregate relational data …

Using an online sample to estimate the size of an offline population

DM Feehan, C Cobb - Demography, 2019 - read.dukeupress.edu
Online data sources offer tremendous promise to demography and other social sciences, but
researchers worry that the group of people who are represented in online data sets can be …

Separating the signal from the noise: Evidence for deceleration in old-age death rates

DM Feehan - Demography, 2018 - Springer
Widespread population aging has made it critical to understand death rates at old ages.
However, studying mortality at old ages is challenging because the data are sparse …

The network survival method for estimating adult mortality: Evidence from a survey experiment in Rwanda

DM Feehan, M Mahy, MJ Salganik - Demography, 2017 - read.dukeupress.edu
Adult death rates are a critical indicator of population health and well-being. Wealthy
countries have high-quality vital registration systems, but poor countries lack this …

Comparing the Robustness of Simple Network Scale-Up Method (NSUM) Estimators

JP Kunke, I Laga, X Niu, TH McCormick - arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.07490, 2023 - arxiv.org
The network scale-up method (NSUM) is a cost-effective approach to estimating the size or
prevalence of a group of people that is hard to reach through a standard survey. The basic …

Comparing the Robustness of Simple Network Scale-Up Method Estimators

JP Kunke, I Laga, X Niu… - Sociological …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The network scale-up method (NSUM) is a cost-effective approach to estimating the size or
prevalence of a group of people that is hard to reach through a standard survey. The basic …

Estimating adult death rates from sibling histories: A network approach

DM Feehan, GM Borges - Demography, 2021 - read.dukeupress.edu
Hundreds of millions of people live in countries that do not have complete death registration
systems, meaning that most deaths are not recorded and that critical quantities, such as life …