Researchers may apply diverse methods to collect data for investigating suicide in transgendered people. Bauer, Scheim, Pyne, Travers and Hammond (2015) used Trans PULSE respondent-driven sampling (RDS) survey to collect research data on intervenable factors linked to suicide risks. Their research was based on a hypothesis the suicide among transgendered people was high at 43% over a lifetime. The researchers argued that demographic variations participated in influencing the suicide risk and sought to determine the protective factors and intervenable risks. In a bid to evidence these assumptions, the researchers performed a study based on the populous community of Canada in Ontario. The participants were subjected to services based within Ontario, including health care services, residence, and work. The RDS sampling method joins systematic chain-referral with the analyses of statistics, accounting to distinct levels of connections and dependence during recruitments (Gile & Handcock, 2010). The models fitted this research study since the transgendered individuals were interconnected through networking. The population could not be sampled randomly. Since there were no reliable data usable for the transgendered people, these individuals had to be motivated to participate in the research. The sampling commenced with 16 seeds where the information about their recruitment chains was recorded. Each participant was allowed to recruit another person in the model in order to gather a larger group. In this regard, each participant had 3 coupons for inviting eligible individuals in the network. In this respect, the research managed to tract the network structure by establishing the person who recruited a particular individual. The data was collected for 1 year using 10 waves of chain length where information about suicide attempts was collected.
References
Bauer, G. R., Scheim, A. I., Pyne, J., Travers, R., & Hammond, R. (2015). Intervenable factors associated with suicide risk in transgender persons: A respondent driven sampling study in Ontario, Canada. BMC Public Health, 15(1), 525. doi:10.1186/s12889-015-1867-2
Gile, K. J., & Handcock, M. S. (2010). Respondent-Driven Sampling: An Assessment Of Current Methodology. Sociological Methodology, 40(1), 285-327. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9531.2010.01223.x
