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An Innovative Approach to the Design of a National Probability Sample of Sexual Minority Adults
March 2020
Sampling lesbian, gay, and bisexual people to recruit a national probability sample is challenging. This study tests an innovative approach that uses both probability sampling and a tailored survey to assemble a U.S. national probability sample of non-transgender sexual minority adults. It was published in LGBT Health in March 2020.
Highlights
Nonprobability community-sourced samples raise the potential for biases in the representation of the population and therefore the findings.
Probability studies typically target the general public, so their topics and survey questions are not tailored to sexual minority respondents.
This study identified LGBT individuals using a U.S. probability sample. Then, eligible participants took a self-administered survey.