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Применение выборки, направляемой респондентом в онлайн-исследованиях: методологические вызовы и исследовательские перспективы.
The possibility to use respondent-driven sampling to conduct online surveys was introduced to the scientific community seven years ago. Since that time, foreign and domestic researchers conducted a series of experiments with WebRDS. However, their results have been ambiguous. On the one hand, some authors see WebRDS as a convenient and promising research technology. On the other hand, some researchers bring attention to the difficulty of applying respondent-driven sampling and unsuccessful attempts to obtain unbiased estimates of the target population parameters. The contradiction is further escalated by broader discussion of the possibility to follow basic RDS assumptions. Therefore, this paper analyzes implementation of respondent-driven sampling in online research and summarizes results of recent methodological discussion on the development of RDS. In conclusion, the paper provides recommendations on conducting methodological studies of WebRDS