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Table 2 Recruitment methods by categories

From: Hard-to-reach populations of men who have sex with men and sex workers: a systematic review on sampling methods

Recruitment methods

Form

Category

Convenience

Venue-based

Non-probabilistic

Purposive

Link-tracing

Non-probabilistic

Snowball

Link-tracing

Non-probabilistic

Targeted

Link-tracing

Non-probabilistic

Internet

Venue-based

Semi-probabilistic

RDS

Link-tracing

Semi-probabilistic

TLS

Venue-based

Semi-probabilistic

Cluster

Probabilistic

Probabilistic

Multi-stage probability sample

Probabilistic

Probabilistic

RDD

Probabilistic

Probabilistic

Stratified probability sampling

Probabilistic

Probabilistic