Putting Respondent-Driven Sampling on the Map: Insights from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Abstract

In the context of a large and complex urban area, plagued by structural violence and with a lively drug scene, the study made evident network bottlenecks. Either secondary to its relatively small sample size, structural constraints, or a combination of both, such bottlenecks represent a formidable challenge for RDS or other network-based methods as applied to urban settings with characteristics similar to Rio de Janeiro.