Not by the Book: Facebook as a Sampling Frame

Sociological Methods and Research

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 57-88

  Bhutta, Christine Brickman ^a  

^a Economics and Society   (United States)

Author keywords

coverage error; inference; Internet sampling; snowball sampling; Social networking websites

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863632915     PISSN: 00491241     EISSN: 15528294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0049124112440795     Document Type: Article

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