Papers from the N-SUM project: the Network Scale-Up Method

• Estimating the Size of Event Populations II (Bernard et al. 1989)
• Estimating the Size of Personal Networks (Killworth et al. 1990)
• Estimating the Size of Event Populations I (Bernard et al. 1991)
• Who Knows Your HIV status? I (Shelley et al. 1995)
• Corroborating the number of HIV/AIDS victims in the U.S. (Johnsen et al 1995)
• Eliciting Representative Samples of Networks (McCarty et al 1997)
• Estimating the incidence of HIV, rape, and homelessness (Killworth et al 1998)
• Estimating Seroprevalence in the U.S. (Killworth et al. 1998)
• Estimating the Ripple Effect of a Disaster (Bernard et al. 2001)
• Two Methods for Estimating Network Size (McCarty et al. 2001)
• Two Interpretations of Reports of Knowledge of Subpopulation Sizes (Killworth et al. 2003)
• The Accuracy of Small World Chains in Social Networks (Killworth et al. 2006)
• Scale-Up Methods as Applied to Estimates of Heroin Use (Kadushin et al. 2006)
• Who Knows Your HIV status II? Information Propagation Within Social Networks of Seropositive People (Shelley et al. 2006)
• Investigating the Variation of Personal Network Size Under Unknown Error Conditions (Killworth et al. 2006)

Powerpoints:

• Background and theory of the network scale-up project
• How to conduct a network scale-up survey

Other papers and materials on the network scale-up method:

• How many people do you know? Efficiently estimating personal network size. (McCormick, Salganik, and Zheng 2008)
• How many people do you know in prison? (Zheng, Salganik, and Gelman 2006)
• Fighting a Hydra: A Note on the Network Embeddedness of the War
  on Terror (Moody 2006)
• Question order and interviewer effects in CATI scale-up surveys (2009) (Snidero et al.)
• List of subpopulations used in previous N-SUM studies

Excel sheets for calculating network scale-ups:

• 1. Estimating the size of an uncountable population using the back estimation method
• 2. Estimating the size of an uncountable population using the summation method

Data sets from N-SUM projects:

• 1. Data from the study on populations at high risk for HIV-AIDS. Kiev International Institute of Sociology (2009). This is an SPSS file.
• Codebook for the Ukraine study
• Final report of the Kiev Institute of Sociology on the Ukraine scale-up study
• 2. Data from the Kadushin et al. study of heroin (2006). This is an SPSS file.
• Codebook for the Kadushin study
• (more coming)

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